valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:44:38 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer said: > >> Challenge taken. >> >> RFC 2277, "IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages", section 3.1, >> "Protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 charset [...] Protocols MAY >> specify, in addition, how to use other charsets [something DNS does >> not do, so it must be UTF-8]" > > (ooh.. an RFC lawyering fight. Goody goody, haven't had one in a while.. :) > > That requires overlooking the minor detail that the DNS RFC predates that by > quite > some time, and there's no combination of RFCs 2119 and 2277 that mandates > retrofitting grandfathered protocols by fiat. > > It also requires overlooking the fact that 2277 is a BCP, not an Internet > Standard, and > as such isn't itself binding, merely A Good Idea. > > Nice try though. ;)
Valdis, re-read the original assertion and challenge. Your attempt at RFC lawyering appears to be "Experimental" <grin> -r