# Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)

Masataka Ohta (mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp)
Wed, 6 Mar 96 5:25:51 JST

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    From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>

    Message-Id: <199603052026.FAA13022@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>

    Subject: Re: 8 bit characters in DNS names (and URNs?)

    To: dupuy@smarts.com (Alexander Dupuy)

    Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 5:25:51 JST

    In-Reply-To: <9603042310.AA11854@just.smarts.com>; from "Alexander Dupuy" at Mar 4, 96 6:10 pm

> Now I certainly don't want to reraise the issue of non-ASCII URLs; in any
> case, URLs use DNS for hostnames, and hostnames represented in DNS will
> certainly be restricted to the limited character set specified in RFCs, no
> matter what happens. On the other hand, recent URN proposals use DNS to
> manage the top-level parts of the URN namespace and use new DNS RR types to
> implement the URN->URL resolver location process. Although I feel that
> "internationalized" URLs are probably a non-starter, for reasons of
> interoperability and the size of the installed base of URL-using applications,
> "internationalized" URNs (including the DNS-based part) are still possible,
> *if* one problem can be solved.

I'm afraid what you think "internationalized URL" is just "localized URL".

The internationalized URL is a pure ASCII one.

Just like that, the internationalized DNS name is a pure ASCII one.

So, you can internationalize URNs (including the already internationalized
DNS-based part).

> Does anyone on this list have suggestions about how this problem could be
> dealt with?

There is no DNS-related problem.

Masataka Ohta

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