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RE: [idn] IURL vs URL, IDNS name vs DNS name
- To: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@qsm.co.il>
- Subject: RE: [idn] IURL vs URL, IDNS name vs DNS name
- From: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:42:29 -0500
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:42:41 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
--On Friday, 11 February, 2000 19:00 +0200 Jonathan Rosenne
<rosenne@qsm.co.il> wrote:
>
> The UCS could be encoded using A-Z 0-9. On average each
> non-ASCII character would require 3 to 4 characters. All we
> need to change is to allow longer names in DNS and to provide
> a viewer which decodes these creatures back to UCS or the
> local code page.
Sure. As long as you know which strings to decode and which
ones are complete as they appear (unless you think ASCII is
going to disappear overnight). And, as soon as you say things
like "local code page", you need even more tagging. "longer
names" also have some technical implications, especially if one
likes the speed to UDP transactions, rather than forcing more
and more things toward TCP. Other than that...
Really, this isn't that simple.
john