Re: Matching and comparison

["Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>]

At 08:42 00/01/19 -0800, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> First thing: what the heck is the "Microsoft I-D"? I haven't seen this 
> referenced before. A better name might be helpful...

Here is the original anouncement I was able to dig out from my
mailboxes. Maybe there was an 01 or 02 version. If somebody
has a copy of the original(s), or can tell me where to find one,
we could put them somewhere for historical purposes.

>>>>
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.


	Title		: Using the UTF-8 Character Set 
                          in the Domain Name System
	Author(s)	: S. Kwan, J. Gilroy
	Filename	: draft-skwan-utf8-dns-00.txt
	Pages		: 4
	Date		: 24-Nov-97
	
The Domain Name System standard specifies that names are represented
using the ASCII character encoding.  This document expands that
specification to allow the use of the UTF-8 character encoding, a
superset of ASCII and a translation of the UCS-2 character encoding.
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> This wouldn't break the current DNS system if we had different rules for 
> internationalized names than we have for the current all-ASCII names and an 
> easy way for systems to tell the difference between the two. This is what I 
> would propose for a protocol. But there's no need to spell this one out in 
> the requirements, I think.

How would you tell the difference? And would it really make sense?
Assume I have mycompany.com, which is case-folded, i.e. Mycompany.COM
gets me to the same place,, and now I create Du"rst.mycompany.com,
and suddenly Du"rst.Mycompany.COM isn't found anymore?


Regards,   Martin.


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