Re: [dnsext] URI RRTYPE review - Comments period end Aug 15th

[Patrik Fältström <[e-mail]>]

On 25 jul 2010, at 22.17, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 09:26:32PM +0200, Klaus Malorny wrote:
>> 
>> dumb question: I don't consider myself an expert in that respect, but 
>> wouldn't it make more sense nowadays to use UTF-8 encoded IRIs (RFC 3987) 
>> instead of URIs? Or is there a need to keep everything ASCII-safe?
> 
> My impression anyway is that IRIs are being updated, so in that case
> it'd be better to wait for the update.  But of course, we could add
> another RRTYPE for IRIs once the update is available, I guess, and do
> URIs now.

This is indeed a very good question. The URI could be said to be in UTF-8 already now because *my*guess* is that that actually make most sense.

But I take on the task to check with the IRI people really fast, and I will come back with a response (for example how to handle cases where one "would like to" (note the quotes) url-encode some characters, in one of the various ways possible).

   Patrik