Re: Just send UTF-8 with nameprep (was: RE: [idn] Reality Check)

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 11:25 01/07/23 +0200, Dan Oscarsson wrote:

> >At 19:04 01/07/17 +0200, Patrik F$BgM(Btstr$B起(B wrote:
> >>--On 01-07-18 01.12 +0900 Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Again, nameprep only is easier than nameprep+ACE.
> >> > And as I have explained to Patrick, while on the registration
> >> > side, 100% nameprep and nothing less is extremely important,
> >> > on the application side, it's not really that important.
> >>
> >>The day an online stock trader doesn't get his bid in to the broker because
> >>he typed the wrong version of what according to nameprep is the wrong
> >>character, you loose.
> >
> >This is just spreading FUD. No halfway serious online trader types
> >in the broker address every time he trades. For that, there are
> >things such as bookmarks and autocompletion.
>
>Also it does not matter if nameprep is not applied at the client
>end, the DNS server will do nameprep before comparing names - so it
>will work anyway.

I was not assuming that nameprep is done in the servers.
I think it's not a good idea to do that; it's too much load on
the servers, and too difficult to upgrade,...

But from private mail that I got, it seemed like others also
understood that I was commenting under that assumption.

Regards,    Martin.