Re: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine]

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> > Registrars will forbid strings that have [some particular property,
> > the specific instance omitted from the original as irrelevant to the
> > mechanism/policy issue.]
> 
> And you assumed only Registrars will put names into DNS entries? I have
> not realised that DNS has evolved to a stage where it become a property
> of Registries and Registrars only.

What other mechanism(s) do you have in mind? What scope(s) does these
independant mechanism(s) and policy (policies) have?