Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-idna-08.txt

"Eric A. Hall" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
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vint cerf wrote:
> 
> what has been the practice in implementations of the various
> referenced RFCs? John's interpretation or Robert's?
> 
> or has the apparent ambiguity also shown up in working
> implementations?

Whenever any ambiguity appears, it is at the UI level, and as a violation
of RFC 2181 (not allowing the use of eight-bit codes when creating an RR).

All of the servers I have looked at treat eight-bit codes as opaque data,
in accordance with the spec.

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