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Re: [idn] Canonicalization: [28] through [31]
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] Canonicalization: [28] through [31]
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:17:35 -0700
- Delivery-date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:18:57 -0700
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At 5:46 PM +0200 6/26/00, Maurizio Codogno wrote:
>I had the impression that canonicalization (c14n? :-) ) as an
>idempotent operation, that is, if you recursively apply canonicalization
>to a name you'll keep obtaining the same result. At that point,
>I think that it could be safe to add canonicalization both at
>resolver and at server, so that even if one of those fails we get
>the correct result anyway.
Safe, yes, but very wasteful of CPU. It would be better
architecturally to have a demarcation point where everything on one
side is known to be canonicalized.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium