By the same logic, the whole IDN would be pointless because RFC 1035 restrict labels to "alphabetic letter" only.
IDNA transform IDN labels into punycode so that it become transparent to the resolvers who made those assumption. -James Seng > I think this is what's up for dispute. If people have interpreted the > text in 1123 as normative and built resolvers using the logic there, > then that is a technical reason to limit TLD characters. Even if we > think those resolvers were mistaken in their implementation, they're > deployed. Interoperation is one of our more important values, and > that includes interoperation with reasonable interpretations of RFCs > that we nevertheless think are mistaken. > > Best, > > A > -- > Andrew Sullivan > a...@shinkuro.com > Shinkuro, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop > _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
