Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Thu, 07 March 1996 06:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)
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I apologize for sending out my note before scanning my mail
sufficiently, since I missed yours. It looks like we agree, though!

I wonder, though, whether utf-8 in DNS will really deal with the
problem, since entities might well have multiple registrations for all
of the variant spellings of their name by culture and convention.