Re: (dictionary or not) Re: [dtn-security] 00 version of the Bundle Security Protocol Spec.

Scott Burleigh <Scott.Burleigh@jpl.nasa.gov> Wed, 25 May 2005 16:50 UTC

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Michael Demmer wrote:

>>Aha!  Ok, it can work that way so long as there're no I18N
>>problems there (there aren't, right?).
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>>
>
>Well -- we need to decide on what to do re I8N. My inclination is to
>have the protocol just be in ASCII, and put the burden on the
>application interface to go to/from some multibyte encoding when
>interfacing with the application.
>  
>
I agree: the external representation locally exposed to applications and 
users is where the internationalization is really needed.  On the wire I 
don't think it's useful.

Scott