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@xn--zrich-kva.email is already a valid value for the e-mail (or abuse-c) attribute.
-- Piotr Strzyżewski