Hi Keld, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk> > I was amongst the most vocal proponents af a general 8-bit email > exchange protocol, the one that emerged as ESMTP. I remember being > at IETF in Santa Fé 1992-ish, where we discussed this, and I was the > only European around when it was asked if somebody, especially from > Europe, really wanted a general 8-bit exchange protocol. And I raised > my voice and insisted. So it was not really questioned anymore > and ESMTP was produced. But mostly as a courtesy to the Europeans. > Sometimes you can make a difference:-) Whole heartedly agree. This time we have yourself and the Asian community standing up saying we want IDN(UTF8), hopefully, this is unquestioned as well. > I think getting to >8bit is a non-starter, as per IESG policies > that promotes utf-8 as the primary encoding in protocols. > And I really do not see why we should open up to a myriad > of charsets (being the author of rfc 1345 I need to stress that:-) > We have one, we can deal with two, not many. > > What we have now is a restricted ASCII for DNS, and we want to > go to a restricted utf-8. And nothing else. And we want the > backwards compatibility and operation between ascii and utf-8 > so we can ensure a happy migration and coexistance. > > Best regards > Keld > Makes good sense. Edmon