----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "tedd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Besides, haven't we already had this debate? > > > > Who won? > > I thought it had been determined that IDN would go with the ACE-based > approach, and that Punycode would be the specific ACE to be used. Did I > miss something? >
My impression is that IDNA, Nameprep and Punycode are proposed and tabled to be accepted, but there is also somewhat interest in moving towards 8+ bit DNS in the future, and a proposal to extend the UDNS concept would be helpful in that direction. So you perhaps did miss something... (btw, I know I missed out on the discussion of the name punycode, but I think it really undermines all the effort put into creating it and arrogant to call it "puny" after two years of discussion by a lot of engineers around the world. Perhaps something like "Genicode" might be better, representing, Genie - small but powerful (more positive than puny), Genius, and also retains the close sound to unicode.) Edmon
