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

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

> 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.

right.  I was talking about deliberate exposure of an ACE, not accidental
exposure of an ACE.  I don't think that many people will deliberately 
show people ACE names (say on a business card) and expect people to
type them in.  They'll either show the native form of the name, or they'll
show an ASCII DNS name, or both.

Keith