Re: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 12:39 09/03/2001 +0900, Bruce Thomson wrote:
>Nameprep can and probably will be implemented at the
>application level. Microsoft already prepends www. and
>appends .com if I leave them off. They can handle this
>kind of thing. But what is the pressure to put it in the spec?

as you say, all implementations can, and probably will, handle "this kind 
of thing".
But if two implementations do it differently, they will look up different 
domain names.
That's the whole reason.

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