Re: [idn] Who supports UDNS (ACE+UTF-8)

["Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>]

Sorry for the slow reply... it was "flag day" here in Canada.. ;-)
I mean that if we use EDNS to signal IDN and then specify that the
"count"="character count" instead of "octet count" then we can have 63
characters all through.
Edmon

----- Original Message -----
From: "John C Klensin" <klensin@jck.com>
To: "Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>
Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [idn] Who supports UDNS (ACE+UTF-8)


> --On Friday, 29 June, 2001 18:20 -0400 Edmon <edmon@neteka.com>
> wrote:
>
> >...
> > Perhaps if we use UCS directly then the "count" can actually
> > be the number of Unicode code points and every language will
> > have 63 "character" spaces to use.
>
> Edmon,
>
> I have having trouble understanding what you are proposing here.
> The limit of 63 octets is a fundamental DNS limitation, at least
> within Class=IN (I can imagine having rules that would extend it
> in other Classes, just as I can imagine EDNS rules that would
> extend it).  Consequently, "use of UCS[-4?] directly" presumably
> means that every language gets 15 character names (and you still
> need code tagging, but maybe we can make the three spare octets
> sufficient for that).
>
> Or are you planning a "flag day" replacement for the DNS?
>
> What am I missing?
>
>    john
>