Shibboleth Developers

ummmm... is this a short-term problem for our metadata?

from slashdot:

> Posted by michael on Tuesday November 25, @02:03PM
> from the untypable dept.
> rduke15 writes "You think you know how to parse a domain name for 
> validity? Well, in case you haven't noticed, things are getting 
> tougher as registrars keep adopting IDN (Internationalized Domain 
> Names), which uses a weird encoding named Punycode to enable 
> accented characters in domain names. The Register reports about 
> Switzerland, Germany and Austria's joint move to enable IDN. See the 
> overview in English from Switch. But I guess it would be difficult 
> to talk about this on /., since it does not even support basic 
> Latin-1 ... :-)"