Re: [idn] An experiment with UTF-8 domain names

["Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Martin J. Duerst wrote:

| Do you expect editors that can handle ACE transparently to become
| prominent?
|
| Do you think it is sufficient to handle ACE as ASCII?

  I'm not sure that this behaviour is a requirement.  Applications should
be able to deal with IDNs in native scripts (codepage or hopefully
Unicode).  Applications and/or resolvers will need to do the job of IDN
(to Unicode) to nameprepped Unicode to ACE conversion, ensuring that what
goes on the wire is ASCII.

  It sounds like there is a diversity of opinion as to where the IDN
processing will happen, and how far up and down the stack the ACE handling
will go. 

  -bws