on 9/1/2002 1:59 PM Soobok Lee wrote:
> I often run xterm and then launch MUTT (or PINE). <snip> This problem goes beyond xterm. For all practical purposes, all apps will be required to use the text form for all exchanges, except in those cases where the operating environment provides an "i18n domain name" data-type as part of the clipboard protocol. Unless an application is willing to explicitly claim support for ACE encoded domain names, there can be no guarantee that the recipient application will be able to make sense of the domain name. Separately, the canonical problem here is managing multiple representations and trying to negotiate over which representation should be used for some specific function. This problem won't go away until the i18n form is available in all protocols and applications directly. In this regard, IDNA is a patch that introduces a new problem, not a cure to the existing problem. Having said that, some degree of transition and therefore negotiation is of course necessary. It should not be the end, however. I would hate to think that we consider the problem resolved after only having made it worse. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
