Re: [EAI] Thinking about requirements / downgrade

[Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com>]

> > I think receiving a lot of email with long unrecognizable ACE conversions might be incentive for people to upgrade to EAI.

> it also might be incentive for people to refuse the use of  EAI.

I doubt it matters either way.  Outlook shows this message as being from YAO Jiankang, I don't even see the addresses 'til I reply.

Again, I'm concerned that 2 "big" companies are considering adopting something like this.  I can't fault their logic, for them the edge case seems rare.  Certainly it's allowed by the standard (we're very lax in what the ASCII form may be.)  I would expect that if a major vendor adopted a punycode form, then their clients would also recognize it.

It would be much better to have a shared algorithmic method that we could all use (even if it was discouraged) rather than having different vendors create versions that are perhaps incompatible.  Can we create a draft (I can help if necessary) of a common mechanism or are there other objections besides the xn-- might conflict one?

- Shawn