RE: [idn] UTF-8 / RACE

[Brian W. Spolarich]

| I am kind of worried on the statement "out-of-the-box".

  Me too.  This usually means 'on my particular box, with my
particular software and configuration'.

| You see, given my experience in this field, it is *very* easy to
| demostrate a system which works "out-of-the-box" under the right
| combination, e.g. Arabic IE in Arabic-enabled Windows using Arabic
| domain names.
|
| Have you try Chinese URL on Arabic IE on Thai Windows? I did and I wont
| classify the result as "out-of-the-box".

  Based on our experience with WALID WorldConnect, these kind of scenarios
will yield undefined, unexpected, and sometimes entertaining results (and
I expect the i-DNS iClient testers went through similar gyrations, weeping,
and gnashing of teeth).

  -bws