Distributed configuration of "private" IDNA (Re: IDNA and getnameinfo() and getaddrinfo())

[Dave Thaler]

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> From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:idna-update-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Nicolas Williams
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:50 PM
> To: Dave Thaler
> Cc: Andrew Sullivan; cheshire at apple.com; John C Klensin; idna-
> update at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: Distributed configuration of "private" IDNA (Re: IDNA and
> getnameinfo() and getaddrinfo())
> 
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:45:22PM +0000, Dave Thaler wrote:
> > > > I talked about some of them near the end of the IETF plenary talk.
> > >
> > > Details?  Which apps, and how do they know when to do IDNA versus
> > > something else, and what is that something else?  Does this interop
> > > with other implementations?
> >
> > The something else is UTF-8.
> >
> > See the plenary slides.  IE tries to guess based on its application
> > configuration for intranet vs internet sites.  Other apps like Outlook
> > and Windows Media Player try one (ACE form vs UTF-8) first and then try the
> other.
> 
> There have been many plenaries...  Which one?  IETF76?

Yes
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/76/slides/plenaryt-1.pdf
See especially slides 55-57

> 
> Does this interop with Firefox?

Not sure what you mean by "interop" as it's purely a local algorithm.
Can you rephrase your question?

> 
> Nico
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