Re: [idn] Re: 7 bits forever!

["Edmon Chung" <edmon@neteka.com>]

Hi Keld,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>
> I was amongst the most vocal proponents af a general 8-bit email
> exchange protocol, the one that emerged as ESMTP. I remember being
> at IETF in Santa Fé 1992-ish, where we discussed this, and I was the
> only European around when it was asked if somebody, especially from
> Europe, really wanted a general 8-bit exchange protocol. And I raised
> my voice and insisted. So it was not really questioned anymore
> and ESMTP was produced. But mostly as a courtesy to the Europeans.
> Sometimes you can make a difference:-)

Whole heartedly agree.  This time we have yourself and the Asian community
standing up saying we want IDN(UTF8), hopefully, this is unquestioned as
well.

> I think getting to >8bit is a non-starter, as per IESG policies
> that promotes utf-8 as the primary encoding in protocols.
> And I really do not see why we should open up to a myriad
> of charsets (being the author of rfc 1345 I need to stress that:-)
> We have one, we can deal with two, not many.
>
> What we have now is a restricted ASCII for DNS, and we want to
> go to a restricted utf-8. And nothing else. And we want the
> backwards compatibility and operation between ascii and utf-8
> so we can ensure a happy migration and coexistance.
>
> Best regards
> Keld
>

Makes good sense.

Edmon