[idn] Re: Alternative Solutions

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 05:23 PM 5/1/2001, Edmon wrote:
>Server-side ACE - ACE transformation takes place at server end

If the transformation is done at the server, then the data travel from the 
client as binary.  How is that different from your second alternative?

For that matter, why bother with an ACE transformation at that point?

Please clarify.


>Protocol Extension - use extension mechanisms such as EDNS or other bit
>flagging & use UTF

This is a class, "dual-stack" operation.  One stack is the original system 
and the second is the new.

(By way of raising a warning flag early, one danger with this approach is 
what we have seen with IPv6.  Namely, people will try to add zillions of 
changes and features, thereby delaying the effort by years.)

d/

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