Re: [idn] Do you want ASCII forever?

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
> "tedd" <tedd@sperling.com> wrote:
>
> >>Besides, haven't we already had this debate?
> >
> > Who won?
>
> I thought it had been determined that IDN would go with the ACE-based
> approach, and that Punycode would be the specific ACE to be used.  Did I
> miss something?
>

My impression is that IDNA, Nameprep and Punycode are proposed and tabled to
be accepted, but there is also somewhat interest in moving towards 8+ bit
DNS in the future, and a proposal to extend the UDNS concept would be
helpful in that direction.  So you perhaps did miss something...

(btw, I know I missed out on the discussion of the name punycode, but I
think it really undermines all the effort put into creating it and arrogant
to call it "puny" after two years of discussion by a lot of engineers around
the world.  Perhaps something like "Genicode" might be better, representing,
Genie - small but powerful (more positive than puny), Genius, and also
retains the close sound to unicode.)

Edmon