RE: Compatibility requirements

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 03:51 AM 1/19/00 -0800, Andrew Draper wrote:
>If the IDNS protocol specifies a canonicalisation algorithm then a caching
>server should perform correctly* regardless of how much (or how little) of
>that algorithm it has implemented.

I am not fond of this because it is making assumptions about where the 
canonicalization is done. My strong preference is to do canonicalization on 
the client, but I don't know if we want to specify that (or not that) in 
the requirements document. I'd be happy if we said "the protocol must 
specify canonicalization and it must be done before the name is resolved", 
but I think that's too strong for this group.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium