James Seng/Personal wrote:
> Adjusted Nameprep milestone in response to David's suggestion. If there > is no further comments, this will be forward to the ADs. > working group will produce a standards-track specification for > extending the range of characters that can be used in Domain Names, > by humans. The enhancement will be designed to minimize changes to > existing Domain Name software and operations. In particular, changes > to the DNS infrastructure of storage and exchange mechanisms will > be avoided. This is mutually exclusive. What you are describing above (and below) is an encoding, not a domain name syntax. To be even more precise, it is a hostname decoding which will result in a UCS label sequence. Also note that this decoding will require changes to some parts of the infrastructure in order for it to be a successful encoding, probably at the authoritative servers for a zone and possibly at the resolver depending on depth of adoption. I somehow doubt very much that the advocates of this document seriously mean to preclude themselves from consideration, so a less politically expeditious but more technically astute approach may be warranted. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
