Re: Compatibility requirements

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

At 12:24 AM 1/23/00 +0800, James Seng wrote:
>Required to have same response to same request etc.
>
>Now, if canonicalized is done on client before sending out, then what happened
>is that different client may have different canonicalization algo and thus may
>get different results.

Stop right there. Why on earth would we let clients use different 
canonicalization algorithms? We would specify the algorithm.

>The interesting part is Fallacy 3. It occurs to me that canonicalization on
>the client may have an effect to the overall operations of IDN. So afterall,
>we may want to define how the client behave afterall.

I believe so.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium