Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8

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

> It's not that "ACE" didn't start out at ISO that is of concern.
> It's the fact that the "ACE"s have an extremenly narrow field
> if applicability (IDNs) that is of concern.  

agreed that it's a narrow field of applicability, but it's an
important one for what we're trying to solve.  UTF-8 might be
quite flexible, but it doesn't let us transmit domain names
in the ASCII-only fields that most existing protocols and
applications were written to expect.

Keith