Re: [idn] The layers and character handling in DNS

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

Keith Moore writes:
  [ extending gethostbyname() to allow UTF-8 ]
> new failure modes

Namely? Give us the details, Keith.

> but don't try to retroactively change an existing interface.

Don't be an idiot. There are some interfaces that we _want_ to extend.
Sysadmins want to type non-ASCII characters when they're editing zone
files, for example, and users want to be able to type those non-ASCII
characters on the ssh command line. If we can support these extensions
at low cost by extending some other interfaces too, great!

---Dan