Re: [idn] IDN rechartering rev 3

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 11:22 PM 11/18/2001 -0600, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>James Seng/Personal wrote:
> > 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, exactly, is mutually exclusive?


>What you are describing above (and below) is
>an encoding, not a domain name syntax.

OK.


>  To be even more precise, it is a
>hostname decoding which will result in a UCS label sequence.

OK.


>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.

The only changes need to be up the stack, towards user interactions.  That 
means the DNS client and the DNS Administration interfaces that creates DNS 
entries.  No other part of the system needs to change.


>  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.

Preclude ourselves from consideration???  What DO you mean?

I have no intention of acting as a translator of iDNS strings.  I'm pretty 
sure James also does not.

d/


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