Re: [idn] change to requirements

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> >  [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].

To me, [5] read like a localization rule, not a data consistency rule. If
there is consensus that [2] and [5] combine to satisfy [n], then [n] is
not necessary.

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