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Re: [idn] Comparisons of the proposals
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] Comparisons of the proposals
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:20:32 -0800
- Delivery-date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:20:05 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 12:03 PM 3/21/00 +0100, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
>Actually in the 8&down case, the format is UTF-8 when communicating
>with 8&down capable DNS software and an ASCII compatible format when
>communicating with others (current DNS software).
Good point. Would it be better to instead say:
Format of DNS requests and responses on the wire
utf-5: no protocol changes, names in UTF-5 (ASCII)
cidnuc: no protocol changes, names in CIDNUC (ASCII)
8&down: addition of IN bit in requests and responses
for internationalized names, with names in
UTF-8 (binary); no IN bit for
non-internationalized names, names in ASCII
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium