Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

Has someone documented:
- the real obsolescence time of the obsolete solutions one is to support 
(vs OS version, hardware)?
- possible strategies to force updates through partial compatibility, 
versioning?
- when the massive changes to occur must have occured (technical necessity 
due to complexity, for example)?

All the products have version incompatibilities. I certainly understand 
that stability must be protected, but don't we favor the past against the 
future? I mean is compatibility with the 20 last years (ascii only for 
everyone and 600M of users) or compatibility with the 1000 years to come 
(everyone's vernacular being supported and 6B of users) which is to prevail?

At 11:22 27/02/03, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>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.

the key demployement issue (ITLDs) is not supported.

Thank you.
jfc