Re: [idn] Document Status?

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 12:10 PM 9/4/2002 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
> From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc@dcrocker.net>
> > At 10:57 AM 9/4/2002 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
> > >MIME (and even RFC2047)encodes texts or descriptors , not ciritical
> > >identifiers like domain names as far as i understand.
> >
> > How does that difference matter?  What is it about that difference that
> > makes experience with MIME not apply for IDNA?
>
> IDN penetrates into all the applications which use domain names as local or
> ...
> I see huge groups of interconnected and interoperating 
> databases,applications and
> ...
> domain names have different criteria for interoperability ,

All of your note is devoted to very nice description of concepts and 
principles.  However you do not describe any networking technical scenarios 
that will fail.

IDNA is networking standard.

If there is a problem with it, please describe a precise scenario for which 
IDNA will fail, and explain how it will fail.

d/

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