RE: [idn] Report from the ACE design team

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Makoto Ishisone [mailto:ishisone@sra.co.jp]
>Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 12:32 PM
>To: idn@ops.ietf.org
>Subject: Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team
>

[snip]

>2) Potential migration problem
>   Many NICs has already begun registering internationalized domain
>   names using RACE as the ACE.  In RACE, any names up to
>   17-characters can be fit in 63-octet label.  So it is possible that
>   some of the registered names suddenly become invalid when migration
>   from RACE to DUDE take place.  Of course it is a risk that they
>   have to take, but if choosing other ACE can prevent it, or lower
>   the possibility, it might be a better choice.

One data point WRT this concern: In at least one implementation that I'm
familiar with, there is expected to be a _very_ small number of names
(0.01%) that become invalid due to length restrictions when converting from
RACE to DUDE.

<Scott/>