Re: [idn] Re: Document Status?

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

on 9/2/2002 12:05 AM Patrik Fältström wrote:

> It is not more strange than what we have for Subject-lines today.

Except that Subject: is unstructured data which is not processed as
protocol data. And even when where parts of Subject: are interpreted as
data (such as "Re:"), they are required to be in ASCII for them to work.

Domain names are structured and used as protocol data everywhere. Any
strangeness with a domain name is an opportunity for total failure, even
outside the scope of the local application. It won't take long for folks
to figure out that they have to use ASCII for everything, except where
some function provides an explicit IDN data-type and can guarantee that it
will handle any necessary conversion.

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