Re: [idn] Future difficulties because of IDNA

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 09:31 AM 1/29/2002 +0100, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
> >From the discussions I have had on the namedroppers list I see
>that at least two things will be more difficult when we introduce
>native UCS in DNS because of IDNA:
>
>1) Additional overhead.
>     This is because of IDNA, a UCS client MUST first query the server
>    if the server can handle UCS, and then send the real query.
>    Without IDNA the client could send the query without knowing
>    if the server supports UCS or not.

Dan, your claim has not been true any of the multiple times you have made 
it.  And continuing to repeat it will not make it true.


>2) DNSSEC will probably be much more complex to handle due to
>    having both ACE encoded and native UCS labels.

This does not alter DNSSec complexity at all.

Try to find some criticisms that are valid.

d/


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