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Re: [idn] Adding "optional" characters in draft-ietf-idn-nameprep
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Adding "optional" characters in draft-ietf-idn-nameprep
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:39:39 -0700
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:43:13 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 3:29 PM -0400 8/13/00, Keith Moore wrote:
> > a) We can ignore these characters on input (that is, toss them out of
>> the input stream).
>>
>> b) We can prohibit the characters on input.
>>
>> c) We can allow them in names. This would mean that people
>> registering names would have to register them with and without the
>> characters (possibly in many combinations).
>
>d) we could have IDN servers accept strings with or without Hebrew
>vowels, then return records with the "correct" spelling.
This sounds like a close variation on (a). What is the advantage of
returning a label that is different than what was requested? These
never get seen by the applications or the users.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium