Re: [idn] Reality Check

[Eric A. Hall]

> but due to backward compatibility and deployment issues, the ACE
> representation is the essential one.  The UTF8 one is not needed.

It is only essential to the past twenty years of activity, while UTF8 is
essential to the next twenty years.

Managing a single representation of data is going to be the most important
aspect going forward. You know this deep inside.

> as I've said before, the time to move to a UTF8 representation in the
> DNS protocol is when we upgrade to something better than DNS.

Not necessary.

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