Re: [idn] Reality Check

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

> It is difficult for me to imagine how you would add anything out of
> band to finger, whois, or other "one connection, one exchange"
> protoocols.  What did you have in mind?

Using transport-layer options to negotiate over compression, encryption,
charset and other per-session characteristics.

With finger, for example, the client and server could use TCP options to
negotiate over the charset, without having to change the finger protocol
semantics whatsoever.

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