RE: [idn] iDNS transition: end-system vs. infrastructure?

[Russ Rolfe]

Dave Crocker wrote: 7 May 2001

         Hence, the primary concern for "just do pure UTF-8" is
> the effect of sending UTF-8 to an aDNS server.  However the nature of 
> DNS is such that a DNS field with a UTF-8 string only gets sent to a 
> server that is supposed to be able to resolve the that field.

Since we are looking at alternatives depending on the Walid proposal and
"just do pure UTF-8" is an alternative, could someone kindly post a
simple list of the reasons they feel "Just do pure UTF-8" is *not* a
valid alternative.  I am still not convinced that we should not just use
pure UTF-8.

Regards, Russ Rolfe
Microsoft