Re: [idn] change to requirements

[Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On søndag, november 18, 2001 23:36:54 -0600 "Eric A. Hall" 
<ehall@ehsco.com> wrote:

>
> I suppose that it wasn't seen necessary to mandate the obvious, but we
> need to add the following to section 2.1 of the requirements document:
>
>  [n] The service MUST ensure that all of the authoritative servers
>      for a zone will answer an identical query with identical answers.
>

[2] The service MUST preserve the basic concept and facilities of domain
names as described in RFC 1034. It MUST maintain a single, global,
universal, and consistent hierarchical namespace.

[5] The same name resolution request MUST generate the same response,
regardless of the location or localization settings in the resolver, in
the master server, and in any slave servers involved in the resolution
process.

I think it's hard to satisfy [2] and [5] without satisfying [n].

what debate did you encounter where the counterargument was made?

               Harald