Re: [idn] Where to do form-folding?

[RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>]

At 09:12 25/07/00 , J. William Semich wrote:
>An implementation of an IDN protocol is a forward-looking process 
>- not a presently-constrained one. The idea that there exists 
>some constant, call it "existing CPU resources," which should 
>somehow constrain solutions targeted to the (12-24 month) future 
>is a non-starter. 

Disagree totally.  If IDN can't be deployed due to lack of
deployed CPU resources, then its game over for all of us 
(a very very bad situation).

>Given, any solution will need to work under current CPU constraints
>(and other resource constraints as well). But Moore's law is still 
>at work. 

I want to be able to deploy IDN (quite literally) as soon as
possible after the IETF standardises a specification.  Each
proposal needs therefore to be considered in the context of
currently available resources.

>That said, yes, it's important that the impact of an idn solution on *all* resources be considered 

Glad you now agree.

Ran