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

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 11:25 AM +0200 7/23/01, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
>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.

Dan, it is not clear from the udns-02 document that the protocol 
requires nameprep on the name server for every query. This is a 
fairly important design choice of UDNS that should probably be 
highlighted in the document. As you have seen, some people who 
thought they were supporting udns-02 don't think this is such a great 
idea, and it is quite controversial for name servers that run high 
volumes of queries (like tens of thousands a second).

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium