Dave, The string "mandate" occurs once in rfc2277, at least in my copy ;-) This document does not mandate a policy on name internationalization, but requires that all protocols describe whether names are internationalized or US-ASCII.
There is this however, All protocols MUST identify, for all character data, which charset is in use. Protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 charset, which consists of the ISO 10646 coded character set combined with the UTF-8 character encoding scheme, as defined in [10646] Annex R (published in Amendment 2), for all text. Naturally, using LDH in _any_ encoding scheme, including one that just happens to catch iso10646, meets this test. For that matter, using LDH to (re)encode EBCDIC would as well. Cheers, Eric
