On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 08:24:10AM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > IDNA2008 is a set of standards-track documents.
This is true. > It is the only standardized way to convert between DNS names and > representation of non-ASCII characters in the DNS. > This is not quite true, and anyway not convincing. What is true is that there is no real standard way to interpret a bag of bits in a DNS label except as an ASCII character, so IDNA is the only fully-developed IETF standard for this. But DNS-SD (RFC 6763) actually says that you should interpret such labels as UTF-8. It is also well-known that some widely-deployed systems that rely on DNS names interpret a label with a high bit as UTF-8. And such uses are entirely in keeping with STD 13. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
