Re: [idn] UTF-8 / RACE

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

> 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.''

If we were to consider telnet/ssh etc as "Applications" and then look at
IDNA:

*If* we adopt IDNA, then telnet/ssh etc have to be upgraded to be IDNA
compatible. So we will end up with IDNA-enabled telnet/ssh or
non-IDNA-enabled telnet/ssh. Sad but true. On the bright-side, only
users would needs IDNA-enabled telnet would need to upgrade their
telnet.

Upgrading gethostbyname() is not in-line with IDNA. In fact, by
upgrading gethostbyname(), you are doing IDNRA not IDNA. Correct me if I
am wrong, but IDNRA has already been given up by the authors.

Therefore, I do not think gethostbyname() should be upgraded (again, on
the assumption that IDNA is been adopted).

-James Seng