[Ietf-not43] Internationalization issues in the registry (Was: requirements diffs

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 05:36:52PM +0200,
 Patrick <patrick@gandi.net> wrote 
 a message of 39 lines which said:

> clearly specifies future directions to be in accordance with new RFCs
> (that is after IDN WG produces them), and is built with XML which is
> already happy with UTF-8.

It is not only an issue with IDN. The LibertyRMS test bed does not
allow contact information in Unicode either ("syntax error"). And I
assume most (all?)  EPP servers will do the same.

> Current implementations may not support it, but it is just a matter
> of upgrading them when the time arrives ;-)

Let's cross our fingers. I'm not really optimistic.