I found djb's message is which he proposes this (in a reply to parent): http://w...

icebraining on March 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)

I found djb's message is which he proposes this (in a reply to parent): http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg21058.h...

I think parent is very much misrepresenting djb's position. The ASCII art was a (off-hand) suggestion to display UTF-8 domains in a VT-100, not a general implementation.