> Instead, conversion to A-label form, or any other special encoding
> required by a particular name-lookup protocol, should be done only by
> an entity that knows which protocol will be used (e.g., the DNS
> resolver, or getaddrinfo() upon deciding to pass the name to DNS),
> rather than by general applications that call protocol-independent
> name resolution APIs.

Wow.  This change would both be incompatible with 4871, and would put 
non-ASCII 8-bit characters into DKIM-Signature: headers, thereby making 
them invalid under RFC 5322 and getting them smashed by any 7bit MTA.

So, let's not do that.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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