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Re: [idn] Who supports UDNS (ACE+UTF-8)
- To: "Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Who supports UDNS (ACE+UTF-8)
- From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:17:05 -0500
- CC: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 08:21:55 -0700
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- Organization: EHS Company
"Adam M. Costello" wrote:
>
> "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com> wrote:
>
> > I think that it is probably also feasible to adopt a "continuation"
> > syntax in ACE as part of a backwards compatibility.
>
> This has been proposed before. It's certainly a clever idea, but
> it's not clear that it wouldn't create more compatibility problems.
Yeah, very difficult. This has been what's been keeping my own dual-mode
draft from being finished. You raised some good points, but the one that
has me bugged is the max length; providing continuation labels just moves
the problem to the max length restriction, rather than really fixing it.
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