> DNS names on the wire are ascii.  So the primary use case is covered as is as 
> far as I can tell.

So we should be the same and put the restriction in the draft. Agree?

Dino

> 
> Yours,
> Joel
> 
> 
> 
> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 6, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Dino Farinacci <[email protected]>
> Date: 10/3/16 4:13 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]>
> Cc: LISP mailing list list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [lisp] Fwd: Expiration impending: 
> <draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-00.txt>
> 
> > 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
> >> 
> >>> Begin forwarded message:
> >>> 
> >>> From: IETF Secretariat <[email protected]>
> >>> Subject: Expiration impending: <draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding-00.txt>
> >>> Date: October 3, 2016 at 4:42:10 AM PDT
> >>> To: <[email protected]>
> >>> Resent-From: <[email protected]>
> >>> Resent-To: [email protected]
> >>> 
> >>> The following draft will expire soon:
> >>> 
> >>> Name:     draft-farinacci-lisp-name-encoding
> >>> Title:    LISP Distinguished Name Encoding
> >>> State:    I-D Exists
> >>> Expires:  2016-10-15 (in 1 week, 4 days)
> >>> 
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