Re: the 9 step program

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On 27-mei-04, at 15:45, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> > > I'm not sure worry about this point is useful.

> > I'm not worried.  :-)

> Two other comments on this.

> 1. There will be many cases where there is no user (at least at run
> time) to admire the FQDN on her screen. FQDNs will for example be 
> buried
> in automatically generated XML documents that are used to trigger 
> network
> access in a Web Services environment.

Ok, in v2 I'll make this "the FQDN or textual representation which is 
presented to the user if applicable".

> 2. FQDNs are now internationalized, so they cannot be assumed to be
> ASCII strings at all times - in some contexts they will be Unicode.

In other words, the address is transformed from Unicode to ASCII and/or 
the other way around at some point. I think we can safely ignore this 
for the purposes of multihoming, at least until we've reached the 
lowest level of detail.