Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth

[David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>]

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Dan Oscarsson wrote:
> 1) [names on the wire are always canonicalised]
>    is the IDNA case and also in Microsofts draft-skwan-utf8-dns.
>    This results in that for example upper case characters cannot be
>    used in responses from DNS. Probably very irritating some people
>    who have spent a lot of mony on their nice company name which uses
>    mixed case and will break some programs expecting mixed case
>    in PTR responses.

What programs will break in this case? That doesn't sound remotely
plausible to me. If it turns out to be difficult to support case
preservation then that would be the first thing I'd discard: other
properties are far more important.

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