RE: [idn] Unicode tagging

[Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@qsm.co.il>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-idn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-idn@ops.ietf.org]On
> Behalf Of Edmon
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:12 PM
> To: idn@ops.ietf.org; Paul Hoffman / IMC
> Subject: Re: [idn] Unicode tagging
>
>
> At 11:30 AM -0400 8/16/00, Edmon wrote:
> > >uniform byte-length characters are extremely beneficial to DNS and we
> should
> > >try to preserve it in the protocol.
> >
> > Could you elaborate on why this is true? In the applications that
> > mandate using UTF-8, no one has been unable to implement it.
> >
>
> The reason as I have indicated is the need to have a character count.

I don't see any technical reason for this. We probably do need an upper
limit for the number of octets on the wire.

>
> Edmon
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>