Consensus Call Tranche 8 Results
Simon Josefsson
simon at josefsson.org
Wed Nov 5 11:40:26 CET 2008
"YAO Jiankang" <yaojk at cnnic.cn> writes:
>> Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap at NLnetLabs.nl> writes:
>>
>>> If there is no compelling analysis to support another approach,
>>> I would actually support changing the prefix. There are some
>>> advantages in changing the prefix: it becomes clear which version
>>> of the IDNA specifications were used by the encoder. That
>>> information is lost when the same prefix is used by both IDNA2003
>>> and IDNA2008.
>>>
>>> That is not changing the prefix, it is adding one. That way one
>>> creates another namespace with a big overlap to an existing one.
>>> Aren't we confused enough already?
>>
>> Well, if there are alternatives that are better, I'm for them. Mark's
>> proposal to send two DNS queries for the incompatible characters such as
>> ezset might work,
>
> do you think that sending two DNS queries for the incompatible characters can work?
> if so, we must update all DNS resolver to support this idea? do you think that it is practicable?
Do you have a better proposal?
/Simon
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