Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

[Keith Moore]

> So, at a minimum, we need an IETF
> specification on how to detect that a domain name part is using a non ascii
> encoding, so that DNS servers don't get lost.

We need a great deal more than that.

The real impact of internationalizing DNS names isn't with the DNS 
protocol or software itself (you can probably do it without any changes 
to these), it is the applications that make assumptions about character 
encodings used in DNS names and/or place their own limitations on the 
allowable characters in DNS names.  

Keith