Re: [idn] Re: permission <draft-ietf-idn-ace37-00.txt (attach)

["Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>]

Edmon <edmon@neteka.com> wrote:

> DUDE's support for 15 characters is also based on 63 octets. It would
> be 14 if it is 59 octets.

I was basing it on 59 octets.  In the worst case, DUDE would require
60 octets for 15 Han characters, but the worst case virtually never
happens.  In the thousands of names that JPNIC tried, it never happened.
59 octets happened a few times, but I think the typical length was 58 or
57.  So DUDE can almost always support 15 characters, but usually cannot
support 16.  I think the boundary between "usually fits" and "usually
fails" is more useful than the "always fits" number.

AMC