[idn] Re: IDN eamples for testing

["James Seng" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

Okay, perhaps I shouldnt say it is "breaking DNS" but it certainly not
conforming to the DNS specification.

Secondly, such solution deployed outside a testbed/trials would only hinder
us from moving to a UTF-8 or other binary solution in future.

-James Seng

> "James Seng" <jseng@pobox.org.sg> writes:
>
> >> Can you elaborate? How does this break anything? They respond to
> >> strictly erroneous requests, with erroneous responses. I can't see
> >> how this could cause failures of other participants of the DNS.
> >
> > Two wrong dont make it right. Nothing in RFC 1034 & 1035 mention the DNS
> > should response error with error.
>
> Garbage in, garbage out.  If returning one particular kind of garbage
> to one common client that sends garbage works, then this is what
> people will do.  It doesn't violate technical DNS specifications,
> since technical specifications by definition cannot regulate things
> that isn't part of the protocol.  It may violate an operational DNS
> specification or BCP, but I'm not aware of such documents.
>
>