On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Olivier Nicole wrote:
>> This isn't a legal DNS name, though. It would seem reasonable to
>> match it but, er, are you /really/ getting 8-bit characters in the
>> headers?
>
> Well there is the native language DNS project that has started to
> implement,
I imagine that the IETF working groups have indeed started
implementation; they need two compatible, working implementations of a
protocol for it to be accepted.
They are a fair way from completion, though, even at an experimental
stage. Requirements and compression schemes to shoe-horn IDN into the
existing DNS query system are still being flogged to death...
> so I beleive we will see more and more domains that are not written in
> 7bit ascii.
...or did you mean a non-standard IDN system being built by a non-IETF
group?
Of those, the only one that has /any/ chance of seeing more than limited
usage is the Verisign one, simply because they happen to fund and run
one of the root servers.[1]
There isn't, to the best of my knowledge, any agreement at the root
server level yet, though, making any IDN system an alternate root.
This means that /using/ such a domain name would result in your email
never getting to you...
Unless, of course, something has happened that I missed recently. Which
project is it?
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Besides which, at the moment they sell you the IDN and an English
domain name. Guess which one works and which doesn't?
--
Interestingly, most Unix utilities have a command line option which will cause
the system to rip the user's legs off and beat them to death with the soggy
ends. This is often the default behaviour.
-- Bruce Murphy
_______________________________________________
Spamassassin-talk mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
