Re: one-language solution

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 02:39 PM 1/23/00 +0800, James Seng wrote:
>Why not be more flexible allowing different implementations
>for different language/charset?

We would have to put strict requirements on how any character set that was 
used would be handled. This means that we must limit the character sets to 
ones that have been vetted. This *might* work, except that if people use an 
unacceptable character set (and we have *lots* of examples where folks have 
done this in the past) then all hell breaks loose. Some people can resolve 
those names, others can't.

I don't think the DNS community is going to buy into this kind of 
flexibility with the possible downsides unless we prove that it is 
absolutely needed. And we don't have that proof; in fact, we have proof of 
the opposite (even though some people don't like the solution).

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium