RE: [idn] IURL vs URL, IDNS name vs DNS name

[John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>]

--On Friday, 11 February, 2000 19:00 +0200 Jonathan Rosenne 
<rosenne@qsm.co.il> wrote:

>
> The UCS could be encoded using A-Z 0-9. On average each
> non-ASCII character would require 3 to 4 characters. All we
> need to change is to allow longer names in DNS and to provide
> a viewer which decodes these creatures back to UCS or the
> local code page.

Sure.  As long as you know which strings to decode and which 
ones are complete as they appear (unless you think ASCII is 
going to disappear overnight).  And, as soon as you say things 
like "local code page", you need even more tagging.  "longer 
names" also have some technical implications, especially if one 
likes the speed to UDP transactions, rather than forcing more 
and more things toward TCP.  Other than that...

Really, this isn't that simple.

    john