Re: [idn] Dots, and a path to working IDNs

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

"D. J. Bernstein" wrote:

> > How do you prevent utf8 chars from breaking legacy devices?
> 
> Fix the legacy devices. This is obviously something that's going to
> happen anyway.

Sooner or later, but your approach breaks them until they are replaced.
Your refusal to concede this point does not change the fact.

> > an older (and orphaned) X terminal that legitimately rejects
> > underscore in hostnames
> 
> Are you fantasizing, or can you identify an actual X terminal that has
> to be fixed?

I don't remember the exact make and model, but I encountered this
particular problem at AVIS 10 or 15 years ago. Probably NCD, but it is
irrelevant really.

Your list of broken apps proves that there is more than one. Surely you
know that your list is incomplete, statistically and quantitatively. Your
position that any list of would be finite is completely untenable.

> You are speaking nonsense. The proposal changes the protocols.

What proposal?

Also, you ignored item (a) in your response. Please tell us how you plan
to restrict the eight-bit data that enters the DNS service space.

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