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

At 08:38 21/07/00 , James Seng wrote:
>Dan Oscarsson wrote:
> > Right. The data on the wire will be different for the two cases.
> > In one the queried named will be form-folded, in the other all
> > character data will have the same format.
>
>Bingo! We should discuss if canonicalization should occur before it hits the wire or after, but lets not go into whether it should be 
>in the library or in the application.

         As a practical matter, not all applications can be relied upon
to perform this function correctly.  Normalisation is already the
responsibility of the DNS resolver/client library in all 
implementations, so it is quite reasonable to discuss it 
in those terms on this list and in this WG, IMHO.

Ran
rja@inet.org