----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Oscarsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:31 PM Subject: [idn] Future difficulties because of IDNA
> From the discussions I have had on the namedroppers list I see > that at least two things will be more difficult when we introduce > native UCS in DNS because of IDNA: > > 1) Additional overhead. > This is because of IDNA, a UCS client MUST first query the server > if the server can handle UCS, and then send the real query. > Without IDNA the client could send the query without knowing > if the server supports UCS or not. > > 2) DNSSEC will probably be much more complex to handle due to > having both ACE encoded and native UCS labels. > > > I see a risk that IDNA will kill native support for internationalisation > of DNS. > > Dan > > > >
