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RE: Compatibility requirements
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: RE: Compatibility requirements
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:45:17 -0800
- Delivery-date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:46:14 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 03:51 AM 1/19/00 -0800, Andrew Draper wrote:
>If the IDNS protocol specifies a canonicalisation algorithm then a caching
>server should perform correctly* regardless of how much (or how little) of
>that algorithm it has implemented.
I am not fond of this because it is making assumptions about where the
canonicalization is done. My strong preference is to do canonicalization on
the client, but I don't know if we want to specify that (or not that) in
the requirements document. I'd be happy if we said "the protocol must
specify canonicalization and it must be done before the name is resolved",
but I think that's too strong for this group.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium