Postel's razor applied to ACE

2000-12-08 Thread James P. Salsman
If ACE wanted to be liberal with what it accepts, it would not insist that applications "MUST" stop with an error when it finds that the encoded string has an ASCII representation. Political decisions about uniqueness should not require everyone to have to upgrade their servers to software

Re: Postel's razor applied to ACE

2000-12-08 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
One more time with feeling: please take this discussion to the IDN WG's mailing list. It has no place on the main IETF mailing list, and it needs to be discussed where the people working on the protocol are working. Of course, one might want to read the WG's archive before posting to the