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

[Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>]

John wrote:

>>> 
>>> 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.

>The above sounds to me as if we are back to requiring that all
>servers need to be upgraded in order to have things work
>properly.  Certainly no DNS server deployed today does nameprep
>before comparing names.  That assumption of massive, more or
>less concurrent, upgrades, or its alternative, that we are
>willing to tolerate a long-ish period in which things don't work
>predictably, are the ones I though the WG concluded it could not
>make.

Only the authorative DNS servers handling non-ASCII names need to
be upgraded. Caching and non-authorative servers can do binary matching.
It will result in those servers seeing each different from of
the same name as different domains, but that does not matter as it will
work anyway.

   Dan