Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

Jeffrey J Zahari writes:
> anyone could have already set up a working DNS/mail
> infrastructure using bind 9 and qmail using UTF-8

Here you're talking about a massive change to the Internet as if it were
some trivial overnight task.

> However, IDNA was chosen

Here you're talking about even more massive change to the Internet as if
it were already done.

> better compression comparitive to UTF-8

Here you're wildly exaggerating the importance of a ludicrously small
issue.

> all legacy implementations would not have to be upgraded

Here you're making the content-free observation that we don't have to
do anything if we don't want to accomplish anything.

Are you an implementor? Do you speak any languages other than English?
What are your goals here?

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago