Re: [idn] Suggested clarifications of the IDN requirements doc

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 03:50 PM 8/13/00 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> > "The IDN protocol MUST work for all features of DNS."
>
>again, this presumes that IDN has anything to do with DNS query types.
>which seems premature to me.

the subtlety of saying DNS vs. iDNS is interesting.  In fact, I am not 
certain which I meant in my own proposed text!

Getting back to basics:

Per Harald I am hoping that the solution is layered onto the existing 
DNS.  This will minimize changes to the DNS infrastructure, thereby making 
iDNS deployable and usable much more quickly,

That means that the work being done does not touch the DNS protocol, per 
se.  Or, possibly, that changes to the DNS protocol come later.

Trying to state the functional goal for iDNS simplistically:  users of iDNS 
must have access to all DNS functions.  The negative of this is that iDNS 
enhancements must not break existing DNS functionality.

d/