Re: [idn] IDN rechartering rev 3

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

James Seng/Personal wrote:

> Adjusted Nameprep milestone in response to David's suggestion. If there
> is no further comments, this will be forward to the ADs.

> working group will produce a standards-track specification for
> extending the range of characters that can be used in Domain Names,
> by humans. The enhancement will be designed to minimize changes to
> existing Domain Name software and operations. In particular, changes
> to the DNS infrastructure of storage and exchange mechanisms will
> be avoided.

This is mutually exclusive. What you are describing above (and below) is
an encoding, not a domain name syntax. To be even more precise, it is a
hostname decoding which will result in a UCS label sequence.

Also note that this decoding will require changes to some parts of the
infrastructure in order for it to be a successful encoding, probably at
the authoritative servers for a zone and possibly at the resolver
depending on depth of adoption. I somehow doubt very much that the
advocates of this document seriously mean to preclude themselves from
consideration, so a less politically expeditious but more technically
astute approach may be warranted.

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