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Re: Compatibility requirements
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: Compatibility requirements
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:23:27 -0800
- Delivery-date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:23:02 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 12:24 AM 1/23/00 +0800, James Seng wrote:
>Required to have same response to same request etc.
>
>Now, if canonicalized is done on client before sending out, then what happened
>is that different client may have different canonicalization algo and thus may
>get different results.
Stop right there. Why on earth would we let clients use different
canonicalization algorithms? We would specify the algorithm.
>The interesting part is Fallacy 3. It occurs to me that canonicalization on
>the client may have an effect to the overall operations of IDN. So afterall,
>we may want to define how the client behave afterall.
I believe so.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium