Dan Oscarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IDNA will change how things are handle. Applications that before sent > UTF-8 will now send ACE-names breaking what worked before.
Applications that started using proprietary IDN techniques before anything was standardized knew the risk they were taking. > The .Nu-bind and Microsoft servers will have to be changed so they can > both recognise the old native UTF-8 names and the new ACE-names, for > the same name. You don't need to change the servers, you merely need to add the ACE forms to the zone files. One could write a perl script to do that. > As things will break, why not standardise the usage of non-ASCII in > domain names. I have no problem with that, but as long as you're willing to break things, why not segregate the non-ASCII requests using EDNS or a new class, so that things break in a predictable fashion rather than getting randomly misinterpreted? AMC
