non-Latin characters in domain names

[Brett Kislin]

Hello all,

On Oct 30, 2009, ICANN announced that the Fast Track Process will begin
on Nov 16, 2009, which will allow non-Latin characters in domain names.  
And as early as mid 2010 we may see these domains.

Does postfix support this?  If yes, what versions are safe.  If no, when
can support be expected?

Thanks in advance for your help!
--
Brett

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Brett Kislin <bkislin@...>:
> Hello all,
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, ICANN announced that the Fast Track Process will
> begin on Nov 16, 2009, which will allow non-Latin characters in
> domain names.  And as early as mid 2010 we may see these domains.
>
> Does postfix support this?  If yes, what versions are safe.  If no,
> when can support be expected?

How are these characters encoded into 7 bit?

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Zitat von Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@...>:

> * Brett Kislin <bkislin@...>:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2009, ICANN announced that the Fast Track Process will
>> begin on Nov 16, 2009, which will allow non-Latin characters in
>> domain names.  And as early as mid 2010 we may see these domains.
>>
>> Does postfix support this?  If yes, what versions are safe.  If no,
>> when can support be expected?
>
> How are these characters encoded into 7 bit?

I would suspekt Punycode???

Regards

Andreas

[Wietse Venema]

Brett Kislin:
> Hello all,
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, ICANN announced that the Fast Track Process will begin
> on Nov 16, 2009, which will allow non-Latin characters in domain names.  
> And as early as mid 2010 we may see these domains.
>
> Does postfix support this?  If yes, what versions are safe.  If no, when
> can support be expected?

The MUA must encode non-Latin domain names as 7-bit ASCII so there
is no problem.

        Wietse

[Brett Kislin]

Wietse Venema wrote:

Brett Kislin:
  

Hello all,

On Oct 30, 2009, ICANN announced that the Fast Track Process will begin 
on Nov 16, 2009, which will allow non-Latin characters in domain names.  
And as early as mid 2010 we may see these domains. 

Does postfix support this?  If yes, what versions are safe.  If no, when 
can support be expected?
    

The MUA must encode non-Latin domain names as 7-bit ASCII so there
is no problem.

	Wietse
  

Thank you Wietse for the response!!

Brett
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[Victor Duchovni]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:29:49PM -0500, Brett Kislin wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, ICANN announced that the Fast Track Process will begin on
> Nov 16, 2009, which will allow non-Latin characters in domain names.  And
> as early as mid 2010 we may see these domains.
> Does postfix support this?  If yes, what versions are safe.  If no, when
> can support be expected?

Postfix does not change at all. The non-Latin characters are displayed
in native forms by suitable browsers, and other client apps, but are
still 7-bit on the wire. For example:

    http://xn--postfix.cn

gives you a nonsense chinese domain.

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[LuKreme]

On 3-Nov-2009, at 13:29, Brett Kislin wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, ICANN announced that the Fast Track Process will  
> begin on Nov 16, 2009, which will allow non-Latin characters in  
> domain names.

Non-latin characters have been allowed in domain names for a long time.

For example: http://✪df.ws/ (redirects to daringfireball.net)

The change is non-latin characters in TLDs.

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