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

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 15.33 +0100 01-01-06, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>On Jan 06, Patrik F”ltstr–m <paf@cisco.com> wrote:
>
>  >>- Expecting that every single software component that
>  >>   will deal with internationalized domain names will
>  >>   do name preparation on every processing step is not
>  >>   realistic
>  >I agree completely with this.
>Maybe this is a good argument for doing nameprep in the resolver?

Definitly _NO_ as the domain part is used not only in the DNS 
protocol but also in the various application protocols that exist, 
such as SMTP and HTTP. The nameprep have to be done on a higher level 
than in the resolver.

If your point was that the operating system (standard libraries or 
wherever) should have such a conversion routine which should be 
called by any program when using IDN domain names wherever, yes, I 
agree with you.

    paf