RE: [idn] Why we can go directly to UTF-8

["Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>]

| Now look, seriously, there is *no* *freakin* *way* that we can go to
| just-do-UTF-8. At the very least resolvers need to know about the
| difference between wide() and normal names, systems need $HOSTNAME calls
| that support UTF-8 encodings, etc. This is a massive undertaking.

  The 'just send UTF-8' approach also ignores the normalization issues
addressed by nameprep, unless you think, as Bill Semich has suggested,
that a protocol based on nameprep only somehow makes sense and is 
actually deployable.

  -bws