RE: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep

[Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@qsm.co.il>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-idn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-idn@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf
> Of D. J. Bernstein
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 1:47 AM
> To: idn@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep
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> Have you been paying any attention to Bruce's messages? His point is
> that these problems are _not_ unique to domain names. Half-width kana
> don't work when users are typing their login names, for example.

Login names and passwords are a good example. Sometimes case matters, sometimes
it does not.

With DNS, the convention for ASCII is that case does not matter. The parallels
for other languages are things like half-width Kana, normalization and other
things included in nameprep.

Anyone who thinks the requirements of other languages which are similar to case
insensitivity in English are not justified should demand that DNS be changed to
be case sensitive.

>
> ---Dan
>

Jony