Re: [idn] NSI whitepaper on ML Resolution

[Hideyo Imazu <hideyo.imazu@msdw.com>]

Let me make my point clearer.

At 09.53 -0800 00-12-13, Hideyo Imazu wrote:
>According to the document, they plan to have name resolving library
>query to DNS server in UTF-8, not ACE when a user enters an
>internationalized domain name on a program.

At 00/12/13 10:18 -0800, Patrik Falstrom wrote:
>No, they will according to the paper primarilly use ACE, and secondly 
>use UTF-8, and have a CNAME from the UTF-8 to the ACE.

My point is, with the final stage of their test bed when www.<i18n>.com 
can be entered on web browsers etc., VGRS assumes name resolving 
library used by user programs submit queries to DNS server in UTF-8, at 
least on the diagram in Appendix E.

This causes compatibility issues because i.e. a web browser which ends 
up submitting DNS query in UTF-8 works fine with their test bed but it 
doesn't work as expected with non UTF-8 aware DNS servers.  And UTF-8 
support on DNS server won't become mandatory for the time being and our 
current protocol definition doesn't require UTF-8 support on DNS server 
serving IDN.

Anyway, this point is now supposedly understood by VGRS.

Regards,
Hideyo Imazu.