Re: [idn] IDN rechartering rev 3

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 09:56 AM 11/19/2001 -0600, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>Dave Crocker wrote:
> > The string that you so mistrust comes from the DNS.  Hence the security
> > question is whether strings from the DNS can be trusted.
>
>Only in some usage scenarios. For protocol and application data which
>contains sequences that are decoded for display, this is not true, yet
>those encodings must be validated

You are confusing an administrative issue with a protocol specification issue.


>Unfortunately the scope of this work is such that it cannot be handled by
>this WG.

Excellent!  Thank you for acknowledging that your concern is outside of the 
scope of this working group.


>  In short, the only way that this problem can be adequately
>addressed is to reject transliteration for any data that is not lookup
>oriented

I recognize all of the words you used, but have no idea what you mean.


>, and to defer tranliteration of protocol or application data
>(include mail headers, URLs, everything that is NOT lookup oriented) to
>the governing documents where they can be managed as appropriate to their
>context.

This working group is concerned with domain names, not mail headers or 
anything else.

d/

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