Re: [idn] I fear I cannot use IDN in the next 10 years

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

Dave Crocker wrote:

> >My "base of experience" gives me an ability to follow current
> >activities
> 
> It is "following" future events that is difficult.

Clearly the world wants a UCS. While it is true that nobody can guarantee
that this will be 10646/Unicode, we can all be certain that it absolutely
WON'T be ASCII. What we can also be sure of is that UTF-8 will be the
favored encoding for the future that we can see.

> >Dan J. is not arguing for UTF-8 *ONLY*. That's a non-starter. The UDNS
> >proposal allows for a dual-mode structure
> 
> When uDNS moves from proposal to specification, the real feasibility
> and tradeoffs associated with it can be debated.  Until then, it is
> closer to a Rorschach test than a basis for technical debate.

Hopefully there will be some meritorious debate at that time.

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