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Re: [idn] WG last call summary
> There certainly isn't IDN WG consensus on IDNA as the long-term IDN
> solution. In fact, many of us suspect that there's consensus on the
> following statement, which implies that IDNA is merely temporary:
>
> The long-term IDN solution will encode Unicode characters as UTF-8 on
> the wire.
I doubt we'd reach consensus on that either, since many of us suspect
that the following statement is closer to the truth:
The on-the-wire encoding of IDNs is irrelevant; what matters is the
behavior experienced by users.
Keith