Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 16:45 01/07/19 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>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.

Is that 'all the TLD servers' or 'all the TLD servers that allow IDNs'?
Would it be possible to have it so that e.g. if Switzerland (.ch) would
decide they don't need IDNs anywhere, they could just prohibit it?

Regards,   Martin.