WG Review: Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (Revised) (idnabis)

Paul Hoffman phoffman at imc.org
Wed Apr 9 17:12:42 CEST 2008


At 5:15 PM -0400 4/8/08, Vint Cerf wrote:
>It is believed that the first attempt in 2003 did not adequately 
>deal with several key issues including Unicode version-independence.

IDNA2003 was not supposed to deal with version-independence. Just the 
opposite: we explicitly chose to be version-dependent. Some of us 
think that was still the correct thing to do. Some of us also think 
that version-independence would be fine.


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