Re: [idn] Internet Draft uname.txt

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

Erm, I forgot to mention I am *not* the author...altho i wrote the I-D
on the behalf of the authors.

> My understanding about this draft is using DNS forNAMEPREPping.
> Right?

To be exact, using Directory for "unification of different
representations", which is kind of different from nameprep.

> If yes, expected applications' behavior for NAMEPREPping is:
>
> - send 8bit QUERY to DNS servers which include directory.
> - receive answer in NAMEPREPped ACE from DNS servers.
> - replace internal representation of inputted domain name with
>   received answer.
>
> And then, use the replaced internal representation for DNS queries,
> application protocol messages, and so on.  I think this requires
> upgrading applications.

Yes and No. The answer depends which directory you choose...

-James Seng