Re: Who does what (Re: [idn] San Diego Meeting Notes)

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 20.16 +0000 01-01-25, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>For the record: My ACE upgrade list in http://cr.yp.to/proto/idn.html
>takes this idea into account. It explicitly assumes that the argument to
>gethostbyname() is in UTF-8. ACE conversion is needed in gethostbyname()
>but not in applications that merely call gethostbyname().
>
>But the list is still very long, because there are many other uses of
>names. For example, DNS servers and SMTP servers and web servers need to
>be upgraded for ACE, so that they can compare incoming ACE names to
>UTF-8 names in configuration files.

This is exactly why IDNA say that the encoding into an ACE should be 
done on a higher level in the application, and not in the resolver.

   paf