Hi,

...on Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:04:57PM +0100, Fabian Wenk wrote:

 > failed too. Then I upgraded Mozilla to 1.6 on the Win98, and finaly this
 > one works. The squid proxy which I also use did not have a problem when
 > the browsers sends the name with punycode.
 > Somebody else was testing to send emails to such umlaut sub domains, it
 > failed also. Sorry I don't know more details on this one.

As far as I understood, the current IDN solution is based 
on the idea that the client application converts everything 
to punycode before asking the name servers, so that the 
DNS infrastructure doesn't need to be changed.

So, as soon as e-mail clients support punycode conversion, 
they can send mail to IDN domains.

IMHO, all this is a horrible kludge that will bite 
back soon enough, and it builds borders where there 
haven't been any until now, as everyone had agreed 
on 7bit ASCII as the smallest common denominator.

Alex.

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