Re: [idn] Planning ahead for good IDNs

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

As I said, I don't see any serious support for the ACE-now-and-forever
position.

Keith Moore writes:
> that's because you see what you want to see, not because you have
> a realistic assessment of people's positions.

Let me see if I have this straight. You support ACE-now-and-forever? You
don't think Sendmail will ever have to be made 8-bit-clean? You object
to the IDN WG publishing a warning for implementors? And you think your
position is widely shared?

Or do you not, in fact, support ACE-now-and-forever, but you think that
there's serious support for it anyway? Who else has expressed support?

> the way in which IDNs are used in the context of applications that
> currently support only ASCII DNS names, is not for this group to 
> decide.  some protocols might want to move to UTF-8, others not.

I disagree. The IDN WG is a complete waste of time if it can't look
beyond the DNS protocol.

---Dan