> Are we sure that all the use cases for this AFI fall into the ASCII character 
> set.  DNS names clearly do meet that restriction.  But many other names do 
> not.  And while people can and do define escapes, it produces complicated and 
> messy situations.

I would say so but maybe we should ask the group if there is a requirement for 
this feature to be in any non alphabetic languages.

> I ask because as defined, even if we wanted to, this can not be used to carry 
> UTF-8 to the fact that bytes of all 0 may occur in UTF-8.

I am fine with documenting the restriction.

> There are many good reasons to keep this simple scope.  If we want to keep 
> that restrictions, it seems to me that the introduction should be clear about 
> the scope.

Let’s see if there is any input from the WG. 

So let me ask this question, can DNS names be transmitted in, say, a chinese 
character set?

Dino

> 
> Yours,
> Joel M. Halpern
> 
> On 10/3/16 12:28 PM, Dino Farinacci wrote:
>> Folks, I am going to update this draft so it doesn’t expire. At this time, I 
>> would like to request this a working group document. It is a very simple 
>> draft and would like to see if there are any comments and if we can start a 
>> last call on it. Chairs?
>> 
>> Dino
>> 
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