From: Eric A. Hall (ehall@ehsco.com)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 10:20:18 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
> In <3CB708F2.533B199@ehsco.com> "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com> writes:
> >Punycode encoding will probably be used if the email people decide
> >that they want to add support for i18n mailbox names.
>
> Can you point me at that "Punycode encoding".
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-punycode-01.txt
> And do the IDN WG intend to allow UTF-8, or some other encoding of
> Unicode, as one of the options available for use by applications?
The current set of documents provide an ASCII-compatible encoding (ACE) of
domain names which are tagged and are therefore recognizable. Protocol and
document groups can do whatever they want to internally, whether this
means passing UTF-8 data directly or mapping UTF-8 domain names to ACE for
legacy interoperability. However, at the current time, there is no support
for UTF-8 in the DNS, so it is not yet feasible to do a deep UTF-8
protocol or application.
-- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/