Re: [idn] Determining equivalence in Unicode DNS names

[John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>]

--On Tuesday, 22 January, 2002 08:21 -0800 Dave Crocker
<dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:

> At 10:55 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>> Now, I know you don't like that answer, and that saddens me.
>> But wishing, and even unhappiness, won't change the
>> mathematics that underlie DNS matching.
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I encourage you to read all of John's note very carefully and
> more than once.
> 
> Many participants in this working group desire to solve some
> very real and very serious problems.  However many of those
> problems are outside of the scope of this working group AND
> there is no technical solution that will work for the Internet.

I would have said "no technical solution within the context of
the DNS, or at least within Class=IN, that will work for the
Internet".   But I assume and hope that we agree about that.

    john