Re: [idn] Nameprep-01 released

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

Stupid question: Why is this paragraph, related to Protocol, even in
Nameprep-01?

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>
To: "'Paul Hoffman / IMC'" <phoffman@imc.org>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: RE: [idn] Nameprep-01 released


> Paul,
>
> > Good catch; I'll fix that in the -02 draft.
>
> I found two very small editorial issues:
>
> Section 3.2 uses both "Normalize(Fold(x))" and "Normalize(CaseFold(x))".
> Either "Fold" or "CaseFold" should be used consistently.
>
> "Normalization" is misspelled as "Normalizaiton" in the header for section
> 4.
>
> and a question: section 5 says that "If a DNS server receives a request
> containing a prohibited character, then the DNS server MUST NOT resolve that
> name".  Does that mean that the server should ignore the request or that an
> error response should be returned?  It may be more useful to specify how a
> server MUST deal with such a request, such as by returning a "not
> implemented" or "query refused" error response.
>
> <Scott/>
>