To:
Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, ietf-provreg@cafax.se
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Date:
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:27:19 +0200
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Re: Sending the original (Unicode) domain name as well as the ACE?
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:16:01AM -0700, Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com> wrote a message of 8 lines which said: > since epp's char set is utf8 i see no reason why a native utf name > cound't be enclosed in <domain:name> insted of the ace name. It is a matter of registrar-registry policy. I assume that a IDN registry will require its registrars to create domain with <domain:name> set to the original form OR the ACE form. And that this choice will be uniform among all the registrars. For instance, if the registry decides it will accept the original form, it will have to perform nameprep before deciding if the domain is already registered. But, if the registry decides to let the registrars encode the IDN in ACE, it could be useful to accept the original name as well (remember also that the mapping between the IDN and its ACE form is N->1 and 1->1 in reverse so the registry cannot compute the original form itself).