Ronald, You're quite correct, albeit there is no harm in raising such matters here, the DB WG is absolutely the correct place to discuss and propose any changes and where the substantive discussion should take place. I should have mentioned this earlier in the conversation. Brian Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG Brian Nisbet Service Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nisbet@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270
-----Original Message----- From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net> On Behalf Of Ronald F. Guilmette Sent: Tuesday 19 November 2019 20:33 To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Non-ASCII characters in abuse-mailbox addresses
In message <17839.1574194412@segfault.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote:
This is exactly what I had suggested. Using only punycode for domain names would restrict the representation of the domain names in the data base to traditional 7-bit US-ASCII.
My apologies to everyone. When I posted that reply I didn't even notice the fact that the representation of domain names in the data base was/is now being discussed also on the anti-abuse mailing list. This very topic has already been discussed on the DB working group mailing list, which is arguably a more appropriate place for this discussion since abuse contact email addresses (and their associated domain name parts) are quite certainly not the only places where email addrsses may appear within the WHOIS data base.
Regards, rfg