Re: [idn] Why follow IDNA with UTF-8?

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

"Adam M. Costello" wrote:
> 
> Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> > But the current IDNA draft explicitly specifies that zone files must
> > be in ACE, and therefore prohibits such implementations.
> 
> Well that's just silly.  Paul and Patrick, the IDNA spec should not say
> that master files must use ACE, it should say that DNS servers must
> accept master files that use ACE and may also accept master files that
> use other encodings, like UTF-8.

The format of a master file needs to be agreed on. This is required for
DNS to operate properly.

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