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

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

James Seng/Personal writes:
> it is too vague

It's perfectly clear: ``The long-term IDN solution will encode Unicode
characters as UTF-8 on the wire.'' All you have to do is ask how many
people agree with this statement.

This excludes proposals to redesign Unicode from scratch, for example,
and it excludes Keith's 7-bit-forever proposals. We can skip discussing
those pointless proposals if we have consensus on this statement.

> tag? untag? negiotated? retrofit into the packet?

All of those are possibilities. We don't have consensus on the entire
future Internet protocol suite, but I think we have consensus on one
feature of it.

> We could move forward with a strawpoll if only you have a
> concrete proposal

You said ``I would like to hear some support on this before we run this
poll.'' You heard some support. Why aren't you running the poll?

---Dan