Re: [idn] Determining equivalence in Unicode DNS names

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

Perhaps this is the decision -- if conscious decision it was? -- that it
is time to revisit?

I recognize this is not a small or necessarily easy change to make, but
after following this debate for some time, I'm increasingly persuaded that
it does seem to provide the best long-run solution...and doesn't affect
backwards-compatibility either, does it?

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, John C Klensin wrote:
[...]
> 
> (iii) One could adopt the "new class" model, using that class to
> impose a somewhat different set of matching rules by redefining
> the query types.  That was, you will recall, proposed and
> rejected (or, more accurately, ignored), I think mostly because
> people were concerned about the length of time it would take to
> deploy.
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