Re: [idn] canonicalization

[James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
> At 03:04 28-05-00 , James Seng wrote:
> 
> > > - A proposal MUST allow any client to interoperate correctly with any
> > >    server, as long as they implement the proposed protocol correctly
> >
> >This boils down to "The protocol MUST work." :P Can we leave this out?
> 
> No.  It says more than the protocol must work.
> 
>          Harald's statement also requires that canonicalisation has to happen
> in a defined manner and a defined location for all clients and all servers.
> If a server assumed that canonicalisation happened in the client and
> some client assumed it happened in the server, the protocol on the wire
> might appear to work just fine -- but the configuration would yield different
> DNS responses from the server from the same input, depending on which client
> was used and where that client wanted canonicalisation to be performed.

Okay, maybe I took things for granted :-)

-James Seng