> >I don't think it's a right approach focusing on a short term solution without
> >clear understaning/evaluation on what a long term solution would be.
>
> Could you clarify your reason for this? As long as the short term
> presentation-layer solution doesn't force any design change for the
> long-term solution, it seems that the two can be unrelated. Further,
> having a short-term solution in place gives people more time to
> figure out what the long term solution should be, and will also give
> some valuable data about the attributes of the names that need to be
> handled in the long term solution.
The problem is we don't know yet what the long term solution would be.
In that context, I'm not sure whether the proposed solution is a solution for a short
term (it could lock us up longer than we expect as Klensin pointed out) though I agree that the ACE-based approach is a simple solution to allow users to use IDN with the current DNS protocol.
Dongman Lee