Re: [idn] alpha v0.4

[RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>]

At 01:17 22-02-00 , Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:

>At 09:00 AM 2/22/00 +0800, James Seng wrote:
>>Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>> > IDN need only support DNS names that consist of characters normally used in
>> > words and names. These characters MAY include punctutation and symbols. IDN
>> > names MUST NOT control characters. The IDN protocol MUST specify which
>> > characters within any allowed charsets are not allowed in IDN names.
>>
>>I think this is too vague. And "may" include punctutation and symbols is going
>>to be a problem which is going to haunt us later.
>
>Then we should deal with it in the protocol document. Do we really have a technical requirement here?

Yes.  A technical requirement that DNS names consist only of characters
normally used in words and names.  This means punctuation and weird/special
symbols would not be permitted in DNS names.

Ran