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

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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*
> 
> 

I thought those non-ASCII domains translated to ASCII? IIRC, someone
figured out how it would work before they were released and registered
some nonsensical ASCII domain name that translated into some popular
Chinese word.
-- 
C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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