FYI: Extending IDNA to other protocols (Nick Teint)

[Vint Cerf]

this requires a server change. good luck.
v


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Shawn Steele
<Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com>wrote:

> I much prefer the EAI method of using UTF-8 instead of the punycode hack.
>  (http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/eai-charter).  Indeed several vendors
> already seem to be working on EAI solutions.
>
> For one thing, punycode has proven that it clutters the layers of an
> application and leads to terrible confusion about when an IDN name moves
> from Unicode to Punycode, requiring that the application layer have a deep
> understanding of DNS.  It'd be much better to "fix" the protocols to make
> them comply with RFC 2279 "Protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 charset",
> rather than provide hacks.
>
> -Shawn
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:16:53 +0100
> From: Nick Teint <nick.teint at googlemail.com>
> Subject: FYI: Extending IDNA to other protocols
> To: idna-update at alvestrand.no
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> Hi!
>
> Today, I've submitted several Internet-Drafts describing a proposed
> framework to use IDNA(bis) for non-domain addresses.
>
> The basic idea is to extract anything from the address that fits the
> syntax of a valid domain name "label", i.e. strings that roughly match
> the "LDH" syntax for "A-labels" and "U-labels". The extracted strings
> are then converted using a conversion very similar to IDNAbis.
>
> The draft for the base is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-base-00.txt
>
> Examples for profiles:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-email-00.txt
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-newsgroup-00.txt
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-teint-xidna-zonefile-00.txt
>
> NT
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