COM/NET informational message

Fri Jan 3 18:44:53 UTC 2003

At 18:31 +0000 1/3/03, E.B. Dreger wrote:
>UTF-8 is a standard.  MS products have used two-octet chars to
>support Unicode for a long time.  Any reason to add yet another
>encoding?

Sounds like a question to ask of the IETF.

>How about encouraging widespread adoption of EXISTING standards
>instead of adding more cruft?  UTF-8 is standard.  Proper DNS
>implementations are eight-bit safe.  People upgraded browsers
>due to SSL, Year 2000, Javascript...

The DNS protocol is not 8-bit safe, much less any implementations of 
it.  This is because ASCII upper case characters are down cased in 
comparisons.  I.e., the following are equivalent label values in DNS: 
ABCDEF and abcdef and AbCdEf.  Each has distinct binary encodings, 
but DNS comparisons treat them as equal.
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Edward Lewis                                          +1-703-227-9854
ARIN Research Engineer