Re: [idn] Alternative Solutions

[Keith Moore]

Edmon,

I'm not at all sure it's desirable to have a DNS query protocol which 
allows the server to specify the relationship between the native form 
and the ACE form - you want consistent results regardless of whether
the lookup is done using native or ACE format, and a protocol like you
describe is almost begging servers to play games with the relationship
between the two and to produce inconsistent results.

and even if you allow queries in a native format, you also have to
support queries in ACE format, for the benefit of legacy apps that
don't have any specific knowledge of IDNs but still need to be able 
to look up ACE IDNs.  so I'm not sure how much this helps.

Keith