At 08:39 AM 6/11/2002 -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > Is IDNA closely bound to internationalization of the DNS > or, as you note above, is it really "about a micro layer > above DNS and below applications" and hence "has nothing > to do with putting anything into RRs"? > >I have long read the charter of this WG more broadly than Dave >has, but I see nothing that authorizes the WG to develop general >internationalization tools or new micro layers.
Larger internationalization, no. Micro layer is just an approach to solving a requirement. > So, if we take >the "nothing to do with the DNS" reading of what IDNA is about, That phrase is not careful enough. IDNA is not about the DNS protocol. Certainly the introduction of Unicode is very much about the expansion of the DNS namespace. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850
