Re: [idn] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-idna-08.txt

[vint cerf <vinton.g.cerf@wcom.com>]

what has been the practice in implementations of the various
referenced RFCs? John's interpretation or Robert's?

or has the apparent ambiguity also shown up in working
implementations?

vint

At 06:21 AM 5/30/2002 -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
>(i) Whether the correct reading on the DNS specs is that "ASCII"
>versus "binary" is a function of RR type, or a function of the
>bits in the octets.  I take the text to suggest that _only_
>ASCII (note, ASCII, not LDH) is permitted in RR types defined in
>or by 1034/1035, but that "future" RR types (and Classes) can be
>defined to have binary labels.  Robert takes it as permitted
>characters outside the ASCII range, with case handling undefined
>for those characters.