Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth

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

At 11:13 PM +0100 7/19/01, David Hopwood wrote:
>If, for example, a proposal required upgrading of the authoritative
>servers *for zones that include IDNs* (but not necessarily any other
>servers or proxies), I don't see any reason why that couldn't be done
>quickly. Such zones have sufficient incentive to upgrade, if necessary.

That's not what most of the proposals at hand require. They require 
that any name server that might do IDN queries be upgraded. This 
means the DNS caching servers run at every large company and every 
ISP. This probably also includes every DNS server that gets hit a 
recursive query (even if that server has no IDNs itself), such as the 
root servers and all the TLD servers.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium