Before this misunderstanding goes any further: I've
NEVER argued that one should "just send UTF-8". I'm sure
that's going to mess up. I'm saying that there should
be a *transition strategy* to eventually be able to
use UTF-8 for domain names (including host names). That
is quite different from "just sending UTF-8".
Kind regards
/kent k
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Seng [mailto:jseng@pobox.org.sg]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 3:44 AM
> To: David R. Conrad
> Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [idn] host name vs. domain name
>
>
> "David R. Conrad" wrote:
> > Does anyone have actual empirical data for the implications
> to the existing
> > software which expects "host name" subset US-ASCII should
> that software be
> > presented with UTF-8?
>
> I have it somewhere. it is quite ugly...let me hunt for it
> and post it to the
> list later.
>
> -James Seng
>