Re: [weirds] Basis for BOF request for Taipei

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> Thu, 29 September 2011 17:06 UTC

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: weirds-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:weirds-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John Levine
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:20 AM
> To: weirds@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [weirds] Basis for BOF request for Taipei
> 
> >> 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.

Ditto.

> >> 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.

Works for me.

-MSK