Re: [cobalt-users] last msg on .med tld

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:28:50 -0500
> From: jale


> Just to finish up this thread on the .med tld - this is from
> the owner of our ISP:

[ snip ]

Yes, your ISP is correct.  This thread reminds me of something
else that isn't Cobalt-specific, but will bite people soon:
internationalized domain names.

The short answer is NetSol is making a browser plugin for sites
to support the character encoding used in internationalized
domain names.  Unfortunately, that won't do anything for email
and such...

See NANOG or IETF archives for complete discussion, but keep in
the back of your mind that non-ASCII domain names probably will
end up causing trouble.  (Think of the admin scripts that must
use IDNA for Web things, UTF8 for SNMP, yadda yadda...)

*grumbles about lack of cross-protocol standard encoding*


Eddy
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Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building
Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita

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