On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:08:56PM +0000, Edward Lewis wrote: > Okay, before getting too silly on this, IDNA is a convention for > representing identifiers in non-ascii/latin scripts into DNS labels, for > the purpose of restricting what can be registered to prevent confusion.
I think that misstates things a little. I'd say it is a protocol for representing Unicode in labels conforming to LDH, and for internationalizing the LDH convention. > between the printed and on-wire forms.) But there’s nothing stopping me > in the DNS protocol from putting arbitrary binary garbage Or arbitrary UTF-8 strings. There are systems that use them, including some from the small vendors called "Apple" and "Microsoft". (I don't think we're saying anything different; just trying to point out this isn't theoretical.) A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
