Re: [idn] An experiment with UTF-8 domain names

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 12.08 +0100 01-01-06, Dan wrote:
>Moving case mapping to the client will break some applications.
>While DNS is case insensitive, many applications are not.
>Today I have several applications doing a reverse lookup
>to get the name of a host, and then use it to compare with
>application data.

If you read the nameprep draft, draft-ietf-idn-nameprep-00.txt, you 
will see that the case mapping is done in the client for the 
non-us-ascii names. So, we will be backward compatible for ascii 
characters.

    paf