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[idn] Requirements: sorting
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: [idn] Requirements: sorting
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 08:14:59 -0800
- Delivery-date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 08:15:35 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
In the second paragraph of section 2.4, it says:
>The DNS has to match a domain name in a request with a domain name held
>in one or more zones. It also needs to sort names into order. It is
>expected that some sort of canonicalisation algorithm will be used as
>the first step of this process. This section discusses some of the
>properties which will be required of that algorithm.
I couldn't find any requirement in RFC 1034 or RFC 1035 that required
sorting by names. Is this requirement in any other DNS standard? If not, I
strongly suggest we remove the second sentence of this paragraph, since
sort is incredibly problematic in internationalization.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium