[idn] Why follow IDNA with UTF-8?

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 10:09 AM -0500 7/15/01, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>No, only until ACE can be deprecated. This will happen on a per-app basis
>where it happens,

In the IETF, we are not in the habit of saying "features of an 
earlier version of this protocol that worked fine will be broken in 
this new version". Can you list the advantages to the end users that 
deprecating ACE will have?

>  or with entirely new applications that avoid using ACE
>altogether.

That's like saying "entirely new applications that avoid using the 
DNS altogether". Again, please list the advantages to the end user of 
creating a protocol that doesn't use the same DNS as the rest of the 
IETF protocols.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium