Re: [idn] UTF-8 / RACE

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

My web page carefully specifies details of the ACE solution: where ACE
is used, where it is not used, and what has to be changed to make that
work. The reason that gethostbyname() has to be upgraded, for example,
is that ACE is not used in ``command lines for telnet, ssh, etc.'' but
ACE is used in ``DNS queries and responses.''

My web page then carefully specifies details of the UTF-8 solution. See
http://cr.yp.to/proto/idn.html.

I'm willing to analyze the costs of other IDN solutions. But I'm not
interested in proposals that don't actually provide internationalized
domain names. It's idiotic to claim that we have Greek domain names if
Greek users aren't seeing Greek alphas and betas on the screen. (Does
anyone dispute this?)

James Seng/Personal writes:
> The administrator should already have the ACE for his domain and
> that could goes directly into the config file.

No. That would not be a working IDN solution. A Greek administrator
would see unreadable ACE gobbledygook instead of a readable Greek alpha.

---Dan