Re: [idn] IDN character repertoire, nameprep

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

At/À 16:27 2001-03-20 -0500, Mark Welter you wrote/vous écriviez:


> > In order to prohibit characters, the DNS server has to undo the ACE
> > encoding.  You have just started to modify DNS, something that many
> > people try desperatly to avoid.
> >
> > > AMC
> >
> > --Johnny
>
>    I brought up the very point that Adam has been trying to make at the
>49th meeting.  There is no need to decode an ACE to prohibit characters,
>or in fact arbitrary strings.  You have to keep clearly in mind that the
>"registration" process controls what can resolve.

sorry, the "registration" process only controls 2nd level labels. It 
doesn't control 3nd, 4th, levels of labels.

Marc.

>  If you don't pour junk into
>your zone files, then junk won't resolve.  This is where the prohibition
>belongs, in my opinion (and that's where WALID has been putting it).
>    The world (wide web) being what it is, you can count on a dns server
>getting lots of truly bizarre requests that it can politely reject.
>    I'm behind, and haven't read Nameprep version 3, but version 2 made
>the distinction between registration and resolution contexts.
>     Mark Welter


Marc Blanchet
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