New version of "protocol" posted

[John C Klensin]

--On Tuesday, 10 June, 2008 09:41 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer
<bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> [I like the date]
> 
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:17:07AM -0400,
>  John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com> wrote 
>  a message of 30 lines which said:
> 
>> As you have presumably all noticed by now,
>> draft-ietf-idnabis-protocol-01 has been posted.
> 
> Section 6.3, "root server considerations".
> 
> These issues do not seem specific to the root name servers.
> But the main issue is the sentence:
> 
>> Also, queries and responses for IDNs will probably be somewhat
>> longer than typical queries today, so more queries and
>> responses may be forced to go to TCP instead of UDP.
> 
> EDNS0 has been specified in RFC 2671 nine years ago and is
> widely available. Let's replace the sentence by:
> 
> Also, queries and responses for IDNs will probably be somewhat
> longer than typical queries today, so EDNS0 [RFC 2671] support
> in name servers and middleboxes may be more important than
> today (otherwise, queries and responses may be forced to go to
> TCP instead of UDP).

Good idea.   I've rewritten this a little bit, but have
incorporated it into the working draft for protocol-02.  Have
also changed the title of the section.

thanks,
   john