[db-wg] Internationalized domain names in the data abase?

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 04:04:11PM +0100, Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote:

Hi!

> DB-WG: should we allow non-ASCII addresses in the RIPE database?

Do you mean email addresses or street addresses as well?

> > P.S.  Not that anybody should really care, but for this one lone resarcher
> > it would be maximally convenient if all domain names represented within the
> > data base were encoded as punycode, where necessary.  In fact, it is my
> > belief that 99.99% of them already are, which thus renders the "transition"
> > to that standard essentially pain free.
> > 
> 
> DB-WG: is punycode for domain names a viable alternative for encoding non-ASCII email addresses?

Works for me.

> For example, the punycode equivalent abuse at xn--zrich-kva.email is already a valid value for the e-mail (or abuse-c) attribute.

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Piotr Strzyżewski