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Re: [idn] SC/TC equivalence



I concur.
Edmon

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hopwood" <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>
>
> Unless I'm missing something, SC/TC equivalence doesn't affect the
protocol;
> it's purely a local issue for administrators of zones that include names
> with Chinese characters. They could configure the authoritative servers
for
> those zones to use any of the following approaches:
>
> 1. have zone entries for each combination.
> 2. have zone entries only for folded names, and do folding in the server.
> 3. have the server try to match the unfolded name first, and if not found,
>    try to match the folded name.
>
> Intermediate servers will cache the variants that are actually used (which
> is probably only a small subset of the possible variants).
>
> So the WG doesn't need to decide this, apart from pointing out the
options.
>
> - --