Re: [idn] IDN rechartering rev 3

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>]

Dave,

The string "mandate" occurs once in rfc2277, at least in my copy ;-)
   
   This document does not mandate a policy on name internationalization,
   but requires that all protocols describe whether names are
   internationalized or US-ASCII.

There is this however,

   All protocols MUST identify, for all character data, which charset is
   in use.

   Protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 charset, which consists of
   the ISO 10646 coded character set combined with the UTF-8 character
   encoding scheme, as defined in [10646] Annex R (published in
   Amendment 2), for all text.

Naturally, using LDH in _any_ encoding scheme, including one that just
happens to catch iso10646, meets this test. For that matter, using LDH
to (re)encode EBCDIC would as well.

Cheers,
Eric