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RE: [idn] IURL vs URL, IDNS name vs DNS name
- To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
- Subject: RE: [idn] IURL vs URL, IDNS name vs DNS name
- From: "Larry Masinter" <LM@att.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:47:39 -0800
- Delivery-date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:48:52 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
To clarify:
This is a migration strategy. If you're going to migrate from
"everyone assumes DNS names are ASCII" to "DNS names allow
UTF8", you have to allow for an interim state where there are
some contexts in which DNS names are only ASCII and other
contexts where they're allowed to have UTF8. You can't even
talk about this if you say "DNS" for both contexts, so you
have to make up a new name. So call the context of "DNS names
that are allowed to have UTF8" the "IDNS" context.
Larry
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