From: Ruszlan Gaszanov (ruszlan@ather.net)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 05:34:33 CST
> There is a problem with solution #1 - it already
> exists :) though for semi-ASCII language and
> Internationalised domain names it does not work :(
> because I visited this website
> http://www.nameisp.com/puny.asp and did an experiment
> with total-ASCII language domain names and the
> punycode representation was the same as the domain
> name. Thus there is a problem with punycode machine
> code presently, as it "cheats" and does not "code" the
> total-ASCII language domain names like it does with
> semi-ASCII language and Internationalised domain
> names.
Dear Meeku,
What you apparently fail to understand is that punycode is simply a way to
encode extended Unicode characters using the limited character set of
traditional DNS protocol, which is inheritantly ASCII-based.
Any other implementation would be incompatible with existing DNS
infrastructure and requires developing a completely new name-lookup protocol
as well as setting up a parallel server infrastructure. Since such protocol
would be fundamentally incompatible with any existing internet applications,
new software will have to be developed. This would practically mean
creating a second Internet.
Considering the cost and time requirements of such a project, as well as all
the confusion and inconveniences the transition would cause, I do not really
believe the user community would benefit from it. In any case this kind of
project is quite beyond the mandates of either ICANN or Unicode Consortium.
Regards,
Ruszlán
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