Re: [idn] IDNRA comments

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

Selamat Malam,

My reference was meant as an example, in order to describe a TYPE of 
transformation, and was not meant to recommend the specific MIME 
content-transfer-encoding techniques.

On the other hand, these techniques very much DO preserve the uniqueness of 
a string, including when that string is a domain name, since the MIME 
content-transfer-encodings must be entirely idempotent and reversible.

d/

At 10:51 AM 9/1/00 +0800, Maynard Kang wrote:
> > >A twist in the same argument but would make good sense too :-)
> > >
> > >Care to doc this down in an I-D? We need a transition doc.
> >
> > Frankly, I am hoping that someone will first solve item 6, like making
> > quoted-printable have a usable "pretty" format.  I believe the benefit, in
> > this case, would be enormous.
> >
>The problem is that QP/B64 is character encoding scheme for any arbitrary
>character set hence it does not preserve the uniqueness of the domain name
>(more than one possible representation of the same abstract characters)