UTF8 is upward compatible with ASCII.  That is, all seven-bit ASCII characters 
are valid UTF8 characters.

On 7/9/24, 12:59 PM, "Dino Farinacci" <farina...@gmail.com 
<mailto:farina...@gmail.com>> wrote:


> Reviewer: Rich Salz
> Review result: Serious Issues


Thanks for your comments Rich.


> This is a very short draft that adds "names" to LISP identifiers.
> 
> Major nit: Why is ASCII used for names rather than UTF-8? Related, no mention
> of punycode as a UTF8 alternative. If UTF8 was considered and then rejected as
> not needed, there should probably be a justfication for that decision in the
> document.


This came up in the working group and we just decided ASCII was sufficient. And 
since implementations lead the draft we didn't want to obsolete them or create 
a compatibility issue.


> A document which is part of a system "which are intended to replace most use 
> of
> IP addresses" that limits names to the ASCII character set should not be
> approved.
> 
> Minor nit: "Distinguished Name" has a long history with X.509 certificates and
> I could not get past my confusion. Is another name possible? Okay if the
> answer is no.


We had to inherit that name since we decided to use AFI=17.


Dino









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