Marc Mutz wrote:
The main problem is therefore the domain part. I must admit that I
haven't yet read the IDN/punycode draft(s?), but what is the problem
with using that for the domain?
The biggest problem is that 2047 would not produce labels that conform to
the historically significant subset of letters-digits-hyphen (LDH) which
constitute the hostname syntax used by most applications. There are
several other problems, however, including the use of charset tags for
each label, character substitution (" " vs "_") and other ambiguities.
Although most of the secondary problems could be resolved with a stricter
syntax, there would still be the LDH problem.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
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