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Re: [idn] Internationalized PTR draft submitted
- Subject: Re: [idn] Internationalized PTR draft submitted
- From: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:46:03 +0200
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:56:47 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
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On Sep 18, Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com> wrote:
>I suggest that PTR is not broken and need not be fixed. I believe the IPTR
Unless we will use a 100% backward compatible encoding then PTR *will*
be broken: current applications cannot deal with non-ASCII encodings and
in many cases connections coming from hosts with "weird" characters
in the name will be dropped as a security measure.
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ciao,
Marco