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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