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Re: [idn] What's wrong with IDNE? (was Re: What's wrong with skwan-utf8?)
- To: "J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] What's wrong with IDNE? (was Re: What's wrong with skwan-utf8?)
- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:47:25 -0500
- cc: "Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>, idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:50:01 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
> But what's wrong with a proposal like the one proposed by Marc and Paul in:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-idne-01.txt
to quote the authors:
] The major drawback of this proposal is that all protocols, applications
] and DNS servers will have to be upgraded to support this proposal.
whereas if ACEs are used then we can avoid having to upgrade the
protocols and the DNS servers, at least in the near term.
we can also avoid having to upgrade applications that use DNS names
internally but don't accept them as input from users and don't
present them to users.
finally with ACE solutions there are fewer situations where leakage
of IDNs into applications that aren't prepared for them will cause
trouble.
Keith