RE: [idn] Requirements: sorting

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

At 07:29 PM 2/3/00 +0200, Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
>If sorting is needed for the internal processing of the DNS, it can be plain
>binary.
>
>I think it would be simpler to require "canonicalisation" by the browser or
>user agent. This will better allow internationalization as an extension of
>current protocols, because the user agent will need such an extension any
>way. If we manage to make a good design, then maybe the only impact on the
>rest of the system would be to allow longer strings, so that we can get long
>enough names in any language although they get transmitted with each
>character represented by several ASCII characters.
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I don't think we have anywhere agreed to the highlighted statement above.
Let's not start now.

Bill Semich
.NU Domain