Re: Document Status?
Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.idn |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
At 05:38 PM 9/3/2002 -0400, Edmon Chung wrote: >I cannot agree more to Eric's analogy. To me the key is that IDN has to be >used in multiple apps and it is therefore important we consider that. TCP is used in multiple apps. I guess we had better not standardize it until we have considered that. HTTP is used in multiple apps. I guess we... You are confusing host-specific implementation issues with network protocol issues. > > Furthermore, MIME and its constituent application protocols are being > > extended so that binary data *CAN* be transferred ... > >This is what IDNA has not provided us with and what we probably should >consider. I am not sure when... but now might be a good time to start. Actually, now is a particularly bad time to start. Starting now provides excellent distraction from the necessary focus on the immediate work, namely IDNA. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:[email protected]> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850