ace leaking (was: Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth)

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

At/À 08:20 2001-07-24 -0400, Keith Moore you wrote/vous écriviez:
>         Just same way as they don't put the real numbers after
>         1 800 SOMENUMBER (1 800 7663686237).  It they want you
>         to contact them then the ace form is quite likely to
>         be there as well.
>
>nobody is going to expect people to type in an ACE name.
>if they want to be reached by anybody who doesn't speak the
>native dialect, or who doesn't have IDN support, they're
>going to have an ASCII DNS name, at least as an alternative
>to the IDN.

I agree with your point, but not the way you wrote it. It is more than 
possible than the user shown choices would be:
- an ascii domain name as today
- the idn represented with the right script (not shown in ace).

but, as many were saying since more than 2 years now, the ace encoding will 
leak in many places.

So I would say that people will try to avoid it, but in the run, we will 
expose it, which is bad.

ace has good advantages, but also drawbacks. we don't live in a perfect world.
Just has to find the least pain...
(and the least pain is not yet a concensus in this wg...).

Marc.