Re: [idn] pool deadline imminent

["David R. Conrad" <david.conrad@nominum.com>]

At 08:26 PM 7/17/2001 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> > Don't you worry about replicating the Coloured Book insanity?
>There have been so many different sets of coloured books (with different
>kinds of insanity) that I don't know which one you mean.

Sorry.  Showing my age.  UK Coloured Book naming system that reversed the 
labels (at least according to 1034/1035 specification).  Despite programs 
and gateways designed to reverse the UK names, they leaked and resulted in 
lots of annoyance and confusion.

I am worried that a similar thing will happen with folks using ACE -- 
people will (say) cut and paste a (utf-8 representation of a) name from an 
application into something that is supposed to do lookups (based on ACE) 
and those lookups will fail because a conversion from UTF-8 to ACE didn't 
happen.  To the user, this won't make sense since could look identical.

Rgds,
-drc

P.S. To be clear, I really am not taking sides.  I find all the options 
offensive (:-)).