Re: [idn] Comparisons of the proposals

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 12:03 PM 3/21/00 +0100, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
>Actually in the 8&down case, the format is UTF-8 when communicating
>with 8&down capable DNS software and an ASCII compatible format when
>communicating with others (current DNS software).

Good point. Would it be better to instead say:

Format of DNS requests and responses on the wire
utf-5:  no protocol changes, names in UTF-5 (ASCII)
cidnuc: no protocol changes, names in CIDNUC (ASCII)
8&down: addition of IN bit in requests and responses
         for internationalized names, with names in
         UTF-8 (binary); no IN bit for
         non-internationalized names, names in ASCII




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