>For the same reasons people have been repeating on this list for the >past year. UTF-8 is the "native" encoding for a very small number of >people. Further, even for that very small number of people, UTF-8 is >almost never the only encoding they have. Because of that, we need to >assume that essentially all software that takes in or displays IDNs >will have to do some conversion before putting the name parts on the >wire. If we are going to require conversion, it is better to do that >conversion to something that is already compatible with the current >DNS protocol. > >Updating all of the DNS servers in the world is an option, but not >one that makes much sense.
Well, then we can say goodbye to IPv6, DNSSEC and all other new things. UTF-8 works fine in todays DNS. The only ones you need to change are the ones doing authorative lookups. Dan
