Re: [weirds] Basis for BOF request for Taipei

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

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>> Does this mean the group will come up with a single data format? 

I understood it to be a single metaformat or framework, e.g., everyone
might use the same tag/data format, although the dictionary of tags
would change by application.

>> Last point. Is it worth mentioning anything about the problems ad
>hoc solutions to accommodate internationalized registration data
>using Whois create?

Perhaps change point 1 to something like this:

  1.  Complete support for internationalization of queries and
    responses, including a standard representation for IDNs and
    non-ASCII text in queries and responses, and ways to indicate
    language preferences for responses.

It seems to me that the likely outcome there is use UTF-8 everywhere,
give or take some rules about when to use U-labels or A-labels.

R's,
John