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

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

Paul Hoffman / IMC writes:
> Can you list the advantages to the end users that deprecating ACE will have?

I already answered this in May:

: Consider a programmer writing network software five years from now, or
: ten years from now.
:
: He'll be working with text in UTF-8. But wait, you say, he has to
: convert to some screwy ACE format on the wire. When he asks why all the
: Internet protocols have this strange complication, you mumble something
: about ancient versions of Sendmail that didn't support 8-bit text.
:
: So he'll have to deal with ACE, taking time away from implementing new
: features that users actually want.
:
: You should be ashamed of yourself.

---Dan