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Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Subject: Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution
- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:41:28 -0400
- cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:43:52 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
> And, for those of you who are supporting the idea of the transition,
> please consider the companies and people who register names that are
> legal in ACE but illegal in UTF-8 because of the 63-octet limit on
> name parts.
That's an interesting point. However, I expect that we'll need some
DNS exetnsion to do UTF-8 anyway. Might such an extension allow us to
do away with the 63 octet limit?
Keith