> There certainly isn't IDN WG consensus on IDNA as the long-term IDN > solution. In fact, many of us suspect that there's consensus on the > following statement, which implies that IDNA is merely temporary: > > The long-term IDN solution will encode Unicode characters as UTF-8 on > the wire. I doubt we'd reach consensus on that either, since many of us suspect that the following statement is closer to the truth: The on-the-wire encoding of IDNs is irrelevant; what matters is the behavior experienced by users. Keith