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Re: [idn] Requirements: sorting
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] Requirements: sorting
- From: Simon Josefsson <jas+idn@pdc.kth.se>
- Date: 05 Feb 2000 00:02:31 +0100
- Delivery-date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:02:42 -0800
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Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> writes:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> > 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?
>
> DNSSEC requires sorting.
Not of domain names, only the representation of domain names as sent
on-the-wire. There is a difference, and if the encoding choosen here
is non-ambiguous we won't have to deal with sorting since the
"canoncial order" described in rfc2535 will work.
Let's just place a requirement that the encoding chosen should be
non-ambiguous and we don't have to deal with the sorting jack-in-a-box
(unless something else require real sorting, of course).