> I really agree with Dongman Lee that we should understand the long term > solution before rushing into an intermediate fix/hack. Any notion of "the" long term solution is pure fantasy. There are lots of protocols using DNS names as protocol elements. Each one has different issues associated with using UTF-8 (or some other non-ASCII representation) in the context of that protocol. Each one has different degrees of deployment and different difficulties associated with transition to a new protocol version and with upgrading existing implementations. Some protocols will necessarily get upgraded before others; some may never be upgraded at all, or may become obsolete (perhaps replaced by something completely different) before they are upgraded. Keith
