Re: IDN (was Did anyone tell Microsoft yet?)

Kai Henningsen writes:
> There was *WHAT*?!
There was, for example, Mark Crispin saying

   7-bit MTA's will never go away. Ever. Mail goes on many paths besides
   IP, some of which are forever 7-bits. You will always have to solve
   the problem of getting your 8-bit mail into 7-bits for some 7-bit MTA.

and similar stupidity from Paul Vixie, Keith Moore, et al.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago