For whatever it's worth, IDNA doesn't permit emoji, so using one will break in many display situations. For raw Unicode, you don't have a way to be sure that's what the octets are: there's no encoding negotiation in the DNS. Given what we have deployed so far, I think using an emoji is a bad idea.
A -- Andrew Sullivan Please excuse my clumbsy thums. > On Nov 18, 2016, at 09:00, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote: >> It has to be possible to type it. "hm.arpa" would be amusing. > > Why does it have to be typed? Because geeks might have to type it? > I typed it in my email by using copy and paste from a browser. > (It doesn't even display in Emacs correctly, which is my MUA, btw. I see a > box with 01F3EO in it) > > Being hard to type seems like an advantage for a zone that we never want to > be seen at all. If it's hard for geeks to type, then whenever we find > ourselves having to type it, we'd know that it had leaked in a bad way. > > But, my technical question wasn't answered: > >> And we could have something as ridiculously short as "h.arpa", right? >> Could we have: 🏠.arpa ? > > I'm not asking if we should use it, I'm asking if we could use it. > > -- > Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works > -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- > > > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
