Dave Crocker wrote:
> >My "base of experience" gives me an ability to follow current > >activities > > It is "following" future events that is difficult. Clearly the world wants a UCS. While it is true that nobody can guarantee that this will be 10646/Unicode, we can all be certain that it absolutely WON'T be ASCII. What we can also be sure of is that UTF-8 will be the favored encoding for the future that we can see. > >Dan J. is not arguing for UTF-8 *ONLY*. That's a non-starter. The UDNS > >proposal allows for a dual-mode structure > > When uDNS moves from proposal to specification, the real feasibility > and tradeoffs associated with it can be debated. Until then, it is > closer to a Rorschach test than a basis for technical debate. Hopefully there will be some meritorious debate at that time. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
