Re: [idn] What happens to 8bit DNS requests

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> I really agree with Dongman Lee that we should understand the long term
> solution before rushing into an intermediate fix/hack.

Any notion of "the" long term solution is pure fantasy.  There are lots
of protocols using DNS names as protocol elements.  Each one has different 
issues associated with using UTF-8 (or some other non-ASCII representation) 
in the context of that protocol.  Each one has different degrees of 
deployment and different difficulties associated with transition to a new
protocol version and with upgrading existing implementations.
Some protocols will necessarily get upgraded before others; some may
never be upgraded at all, or may become obsolete (perhaps replaced by 
something completely different) before they are upgraded.

Keith