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

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:47:33PM +0100, Edward Shryane wrote:

Hi Edward, DB-WG,

> > On 6 Nov 2019, at 21:17, Piotr Strzyzewski <Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl> wrote:
> > 
> >> DB-WG: should we allow non-ASCII addresses in the RIPE database?
> > 
> > Do you mean email addresses or street addresses as well?
> > 
> 
> I mean to continue to allow non-ASCII (i.e. Latin-1 encoded) IDN email addresses, such as the example mentioned. Or, do we automatically encode non-ASCII characters as punycode.

I do not object having properly coded non-ASCII email addresses in the
database. 

> >>> 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.
> 
> We can make explicit support for the punycode format, and allows (full) IDN email addresses to be used (as this syntax should be interchangeable with the normal form).
> 
> Whois could automatically translate to and from the punycode format, if an IDN format address is encountered.
> 
> > 
> >> For example, the punycode equivalent abuse at xn--zrich-kva.email is already a valid value for the e-mail (or abuse-c) attribute.

And what about RDAP?

Piotr

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Piotr Strzyżewski