[idn] IN-ADDR.ARPA

[Shane Kerr <shane_kerr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a concern about international DNS from an
administrator point of view.  Currently, a lot of
boxes have logs with the host names of other machines,
derived from IN-ADDR.ARPA queries based on the IP of
the TCP or UDP originator.  I would like to see the
ability to have semi-meaningful host names preserved
in the future while still being able to use a stinky
old ASCII editor to review this information.

The iDNS proposal would allow this, but the names
would be basically machine-parsable only. 
Additionally, some MOSTLY meaningful names, like say
www.Gießen.de (also expressible as www.Giessen.de),
would be expressed as a string of encoded values.

I'm not really married to the idea, but I think a
bilingual international DNS system may be the right
thing to do.  That is, hosts would specify both an
old-fashioned alphanumeric plus dash host name, as
well as a new-fangled iDNS name.  Just a thought.

Shane Kerr
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