Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution

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

I would like to hear some support on this before we run this poll.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution


> I suspect that we have consensus that the long-term IDN solution will
> encode Unicode characters as UTF-8 on the wire. I request that the WG
> chairs run a poll to see whether we have consensus.
>
> If we do, in fact, have consensus on this point, then we can stop
> wasting time considering ACE-now-and-forever. We can instead compare
> the actual possibilities: (1) ACE-now-UTF-8-later; (2) simply UTF-8.
>
> ---Dan
>
> P.S. I'm not going to bother responding to Hoffman's ad-hominem
attacks.
>