RE: [idn] RE: An idn protocol for consideration in making the re quirements

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 17:38 04.02.00 +0100, Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:

>In order to minimise, spatially as well as temporally
>interoperability problems with other systems and
>applications that processes text in any way or form.

Does that mean that your requirement is "when presented at any interface 
with other systems, such as, but not limited to, the call interface of a 
resolver library, character strings SHOULD be presented in an encoding that 
is widely supported by other software"?

I think this is a very reasonable requirement; however, the limited case of 
the resolver library can be solved several ways.

Whether that should also apply to the interface that is a packet sniffer is 
something we need to decide about; if the requirement applies, this limits 
the possible implementation of the requirement the way I think you want.

                          Harald

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