At 10:49 AM 2/16/00 -0500, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
Note: this protocol is quite experimental and should not be deployed in
the Internet until it reaches standards track in the IETF.
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Regarding the Note: - is there any coherent plan regarding testing/deployement
in regards to moving this from Experimental to Standards Track?
As the draft author, let me assure you that it is far from being an
Experimental RFC. I put these words in so that, if someone tripped across
the draft and said "hey, let's implement this", they wouldn't think anyone
else was. As others have said, there are a variety of IDN proposals at this
time, and it would be downright silly for anyone to assume which, if any,
of them will even look like the one that might be chosen down the line.
The note shouldn't be needed, given the definition of an Internet Draft,
but it appears that many folks have forgotten that definition.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium