Re: Comments on draft-farrell-decade-ni-06

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sat, 09 June 2012 13:24 UTC

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Hi Björn,

On 06/08/2012 03:16 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> I think the requirement in RFC 4395 section 2.6 applies here, there are
> text fields in 'ni' and 'nih' addresses, so there needs to be some dis-
> cussion about I18N and IRI issues, or a statement that there are none,
> or something along those lines. What if I want a non-ASCII host name in
> them, for instance?

So what's reasonable here?

We're inheriting some definitions (authority, unreserved &
pct-encoded) from 3986 and I'd not like to break that, nor
would I like something that doesn't work with most libraries.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
S.