Re: Just send UTF-8 with nameprep (was: RE: [idn] Reality Check)

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 11:47 PM +0900 7/17/01, Martin Duerst wrote:
>If you can explain to me why ACE should be better than NAT,
>and why deployed applications should stop working with the
>domain names they always have worked with until now,
>I'll accept your comments.

I'll do it for Keith:

IDNA lets applications use the domain names that they have always 
worked with just as they are. Your proposal it to break all current 
applications by requiring the application to both do UTF-8 (which 
many don't do) and to do nameprep (which those that currently do 
UTF-8 don't do).

How did you get these two mixed up?

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium