Re: An argument against multiple character sets

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

If all domain names are registered using a single universal standard
encoding then all registered domain names will be unique within a
particular TLD, assuming the current requirement for a single root server
system continues to exist.

What's the problem? Can someone provide some examples? Sorry if it's not so
obvious to me. <smile>

Bill Semich
.NU Domain

At 06:33 PM 1/26/00 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
>
>> > This because of the impact on registration
>> > issues, because domain names have to be "unique" in a zone at time of
>> > registration. Because of that, the rules for equality have to be known at
>> > the time of registration,
>> 
>> Not only the rules for equality, also the ways to deal with this
>> equality. If some equality is dealt with on the client side, then
>> registration has to make sure the right variant of the name is
>> registered.
>
>But if all equality can be dealth with on the server (even
>if this means the server gives back a list in some cases;
>and leaves that to the client), then you only need to define
>the comparison function within the spec; and you can leave
>the remainder to the client/UI/implementation.
>
>Dw
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