Erik, Monday, October 14, 2002, 7:29:11 AM, you wrote:
EN> It might also be useful to make the IDNA specification more clear about EN> the length limit and its implications somewhere in the document. EN> Strawman: The length limit for internationalized labels is the EN> limit of at most 63 octets of output from ToASCII. The design EN> of the Punycode encoding is such that some sequences of up to 63 Unicode EN> code points result in ToASCII output of 63 or less octets, but EN> all possible Unicode strings of 64 code points result in ToASCII EN> output of 64 or more octets. If this limit is a new and independent from the underlying "native" DNS, what is the reason for it? If it is not independent, why duplicate it? d/
