Re: [idn] I don't want 8-bit failures in 2011

[lucid@epa.secret.org]

On 3 Feb 2001, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> Dave Crocker writes:
> > It is approximately the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the effort to 
> > make Internet mail support "international character-sets".
> It has been nearly twenty years since people realized how stupid it was
> to mangle 8-bit mail. But there is still no IETF specification saying
> that it's bad for Sendmail to destroy bytes 128 through 159 in the
> header of a message.

Ok, given that:
  IPv6 will requires changes at all of the same layers as IDN from
  application to network

    http://127.0.0.1/
    http://127.1/
    http://0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1/
    http://::1/

  I know of no production IPv6 networks
    http://www.ipv6.org/v6-www.html

  Production use of IPv6 will take another 5-20 years
    Ask your ISP if you can connect to them via IPv6
    I doubt they even have IPv6 address space.

Because of this I propose the following idea:

IDN for IPv6 should be implemented in a raw unicode character set aka
just do 8-bit. Until then *ACE or some other solution can be
designed and implemented. 

-Bill