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

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> > > Just send UTF-8 with nameprep is definitely what's needed,
> >
> >I find that statement completely irresponsible.  It completely ignores
> >the need for deployed applications to keep working through this transition.
> 
> Hello Keith,
> 
> 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.

ACE and NAT are completely orthogonal, so comparisons are almost meaningless.
Even as analogy it doesn't fit - e.g. ACE is end-to-end and applications that
need to know about it are aware of it, while NAT corrupts data in midstream
without the endpoints' awareness or consent.

As to the second question, the burden is on you to explain why widely used
applications should break because of a few folks' instistence on using UTF-8.  
To break these applications for the sake of preserving compatibility for a 
relatively few people who have been violating the protocols is simply insane.  
It's more far important to maintain operation of services that are standardized 
and widespread, than it is to maintain operation of services that are nonstandard 
and in limited use.

Keith