Re: [idn] The layers and character handling in DNS

[Paul Hoffman / IMC]

At 2:52 PM -0500 2/15/01, Keith Moore wrote:
>so what you're saying is that, at least in some parts of the world,
>folks won't be able to use IDNs until they upgrade their platforms
>to support Unicode?

No, not at all. "Platforms" don't need to support "Unicode"; 
applications need to support IDN. The IDN protocol we are working on 
has parts of The Unicode Standard in it.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium