Re: [idn] UTF-8 as the long-term IDN solution

[Bruce Thomson]

> > I suspect that we have consensus that the long-term IDN solution will
> > encode Unicode characters as UTF-8 on the wire. I request that the WG
> > chairs run a poll to see whether we have consensus.
> >
> > If we do, in fact, have consensus on this point, then we can stop
> > wasting time considering ACE-now-and-forever. We can instead compare
> > the actual possibilities: (1) ACE-now-UTF-8-later; (2) simply UTF-8.

> I would like to hear some support on this before we run this poll.
> 
> -James Seng
> 

It is likely that we have consensus on this point, and it would be well
worth the effort of a straw poll to establish this, so we can move on.

Bruce Thomson