Re: [idn] time to move

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

At/À 16:13 2001-05-21 +0200, Dan Oscarsson you wrote/vous écriviez:
>:
> >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-idna-01.txt
> >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-nameprep-03.txt
> >
> >These documents may have further revisions. Final revision would be sent
> >for wg last call. The ACE design team is waiting for the confirmation of
> >the wg orientation to propose to the wg the ACE choice.
> >       The chairs would like to make an electronic straw poll to 
> reverify the
> >concensus obtained in december.
>
>
>I have for some time thought that we should start deciding on what to
>do, but I do not think we are ready to say idna/nameprep.
>We have decisions to do before that:
>
>
>1) Are we going to use UTF-8 only? (and accept that this will force
>    many applications to get fixed, that otherwise could wait a long time
>    with fixing).

this was not the design team recommendation and perceived wg concensus. 
This electronic straw poll is to find if the wg still think the 
idna-nameprep-ace is the way to go. If we find no concensus on 
idna-nameprep-ace proposal, then we go back to the drawing board.

Marc.

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>
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>2) If the answer to 1) is No, the an ACE will be nedded.
>
>    The we get: Is the goal to have UTF-8 as nativ format in DNS in
>    the future, or are we going to use ACE forever?
>      - If we are going for UTF-8 then ACE is a transition mechanism.
>        The ACE should then be simple and fast to implement.
>      - If we are going for ACE forever, the ACE selected need to
>        be compact so that as many characters can be included in
>        as few bytes as possible.

the ACE design team is working on that. If there is a concensus of the wg 
for idna-nameprep-ace, then the ACE design team will hopefully come to the 
wg with a recommendation.

>
>
>3) If the goal is UTF-8.
>    - ACE support should be declared to end at a curtain date, say 2010.
>    - The best solution then is to use something like UDNS, which
>      supports both the future UTF-8 and the ACE/IDNA backward
>      compatibility mechanism.
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>
>    Dan