Re: [idn] IN-ADDR.ARPA

[James Seng <jseng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> Rob Austein's tagged name components proposal will also make this possible,
> in that you can have 2 PTR records, one in ASCII and one in "charset+"; a
> non-i18n resolver will get only one of these returned.

Too early for this but...

The question is why should someone be force to have one domain name in ASCII?

While I do not deny it is stupid for anyone to use an non-ASCII domain names
or hostname only, I think it is only fair if they can choose *not* to have an
ASCII domain name or hostname.

This is why I do not think a new RR in DNS for I18N is a good idea. I see this
as a issue which DNS can solve, ie thru DNAME and CNAME. We should really
think along how to put I18N character set into RR and not creating new ones.

However, I agreed that Rob's proposal on tagging the label is something we
need to consider seriously. In fact, Nakayama-sensei has express that this is
what my proposal lacks.

-James Seng