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

["Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>]

I appreciate that there are different issues associated with UTF-8 or other
non-ASCII approach, my main point is that even if we do go to IDNA, chances
are that users unknowingly will still be sending multilingual dns requests
through existing products that are non-IDNA aware.  The known issues paper
is used to document these instances that cannot be avoided.
I truly believe that we should prepare ourselves for these situations.  It
would be greatly appreciated if anyone that really care about getting
multilingual domain names usable on the Internet to give me some comments on
the paper at http://www.openidn.org/issues.html so that more people will
know about these behaviours as multilingual names are deployed.

I would make it into an Internet draft if anyone thinks that it is something
valuable.
Edmon


> > 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