Updating RFC 5890-5893 (IDNA 2008) to Full Standard

"Martin J. Dürst" duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Thu Nov 8 07:27:43 CET 2012


On 2012/11/08 14:49, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
> Sorry everybody for the repeated emails, but some more information:
>
> Opera resolves www.ad--acta.de. I don't know whether that's because of
> the way they have read IDNA 2003

That should have been IDNA 2008 (but below, IDNA 2003 is what I meant). 
    Martin.

> or because this is resolved through
> IDNA 2003 support.
>
> Regards, Martin.
>
> P.S.: I wasn't at all impressed with the contents of that site, but
> that's a totally separate issue.
>
> On 2012/11/08 14:45, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
>> On 2012/11/08 13:18, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
>>
>>> Hello John,
>>>
>>> I think this should happen sooner or later. However, Anne van Kesteren
>>> recently pointed out that the major browsers haven't yet done too much
>>> with respect to implementing UTR 46, which I'd guess implies that they
>>> haven't yet implemented much of IDNA 2008, either (Anne, can you confirm
>>> or clarify?).
>>
>> By chance, I found the reference that I was referring to again:
>> http://annevankesteren.nl/2012/09/idna2008
>>
>> I also found some mentioning that Opera implemented IDNA2008:
>> http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto2.12/networking/
>> I haven't tested it, and I don't know what exactly (if anything) Opera
>> is doing for backwards compatibility. (On the above page, IDNA 2003 is
>> still mentioned as supported.) Simon, do you know more? Any feedback
>> from Opera on IDNA 2008?
>>
>> Regards, Martin.


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