Re: [Fwd: Re: [idn] Unicode tagging]

[Dan <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>]

> >         I consider an IDN to be a kind of DNS name.  So I'm still 
> > confused by your phrasing.  In which way are "only DNS names" 
> > not "IDNs" in your terminology ?  What would be an example of an
> > "IDN" that is not a "DNS name" in a timeframe where IDNs exist ?
> 
> the way I'm using the terms, DNS names are pure ascii.  IDNs are not
> constrained to pure ASCII.  and I try not to presume that IDNs are a 
> form of DNS names.

Well, this shows that we do not agree on what to call things.

For me DNS names are just names used in DNS. They may contain both ASCII
and non-ASCII. The current definition of a DNS name do not limit it
to ASCII, as defined by RFC 1035 and others. But there is currently no
standard on how to encode other characters than ASCII in DNS.

That is what we need: a standard way to encode non-ASCII characters in
DNS (and we will get a very poor standard if it does not cover all
character data in DNS).

   Dan