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[idn] New protocol proposal: IDNRA
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: [idn] New protocol proposal: IDNRA
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:02:39 -0700
- Delivery-date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:04:08 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
Greetings again. Patrik Fältström and I have submitted a new proposal
for the main IDN protocol. It was announced on this list earlier this
week, but seems to have been lost among the other threads. You can
read the draft at
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-idnra-00.txt>.
Basically, this protocol allows IDN to happen fully without updating
*any* DNS servers anywhere. Given that all the proposals so far would
require that applications and resolvers would have to be updated
anyway, we thought that a proposal that didn't require the updating
of the DNS servers on the Internet would be a big win for deployment.
The draft also carefully explains what happens when some parts of the
Internet are updated and others aren't.
The protocol has resolvers talking to DNS servers using RACE. The
protocol solves the leakage problem that was heavily discussed on
this mailing list a while back by specifying exactly what can and
cannot be sent between old and new applications and resolvers.
Comments on the specifics in the draft are greatly appreciated.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium