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

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 08:20 01/07/24 +0200, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
>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.

Doing nameprep during operation on the server side is still a bad idea.
If we really need the original spelling of the name (which I'm not sure
we do), a new RR may be quite a bit better.

Regards,  Martin.