Re: [idn] An open letter to the IDN WG (long)

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 18.17 -0600 01-03-19, Dave Crocker wrote:
>>         To be clear, I think we need a directory service and we've needed
>>         it for some time.
>
>about 25 years.  but it has nothing to do with the current 
>requirement, unless one distorts the requirement.

I think two things are mixed up here:

(a) People seem to want to be able to use non-ascii characters in the 
identifiers we store in DNS.

(b) People see to want to store words in DNS, and not use a 
directory, and they forget that DNS is used for identifiers and not 
words.

It is very hard to fulfil these two things, because it might be that 
people want to do (a) above because of (b), and not because they 
really need non-ascii characters in the identifiers.

    paf