--- Original Message ----- From: "John Stracke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK, but that's a really minor win; you're talking about *maybe* a few > hundred extra memory-to-memory copies (for large queries/responses)--and > they're all on the client side (a DNS server with ACE doesn't have to > decode the ACE), so they don't affect scalability of the DNS. That's a > much smaller cost than introducing an incompatible format. > Again you have fallen into the common underestimation of the upgrade work required for ACE to work perfectly (including display). What I see is that applications are already having some trouble going from ASCII and local encoding to UTF. ACE in essence requires the conversion from local encoding toUTF first and then toACE. I see trouble here...
MSIE have been trying to implement UTF8 for some time now, yet it is still far from being acceptable. Are we supposing that any vendor or developer would do much better job if we complicate the task by adding an additiona toACE procedure? Edmon
