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

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

--On 01-07-15 21.10 -0500 "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com> wrote:

>> 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.

We should differ between "the holy master file format" and what users _can_
use for entering data into their DNS server.

I think we are in agreement but have problems stating what it is.

  paf