Re: [idn] Where to do form-folding?

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

At 7:20 AM -0400 7/21/00, J. William Semich wrote:
>The question between 1 and 2 below is, where will the "authoritative"
>folding/canonicalization take place? IMO, DNS servers should be the
>authoritative point of reference, as they will continue to be for ASCII
>case-insensitivity. Implementation tests can show how much impact this will
>have on CPU resources.

Requiring folding on the server pretty much guarantees that we will 
never have IDN gTLDs and ccTLDs, which I think would be very sad.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium