Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

D.J. And all,

  I agree with D.J. here that a straw poll would be a good idea at this
juncture.

D. J. Bernstein wrote:

> James Seng/Personal writes:
> > I requested you to point to an internet draft
>
> Your request is noted.
>
> In the meantime, please run the poll. A two-week poll will leave
enough
> time for people to get back from vacation. The agree/disagree
statement,
> as I've told you repeatedly, is as follows: ``The long-term IDN
solution
> will encode Unicode characters as UTF-8 on the wire.''
>
> I think we have consensus on this one aspect of what's going to
happen.
> If I'm right, then we can stop wasting time discussing silly
ACE-forever
> scenarios that aren't going to happen. Please stop stonewalling.
>
> > strawpoll for individual whims
>
> Excuse me? Many people have announced their support for UTF-8 as the
> long-term solution. Only a few people have objected. When you stalled
by
> saying ``I would like to hear some support on this before we run this
> poll,'' you immediately saw some public messages of support. For
> example, here's what Bruce Thomson said:
>
>    It is likely that we have consensus on this point, and it would be
>    well worth the effort of a straw poll to establish this, so we can
>    move on.
>
> How you can call this an ``individual whim'' is beyond me.
>
> ---Dan

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