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Re: [idn] Adding "optional" characters in draft-ietf-idn-nameprep
- To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Adding "optional" characters in draft-ietf-idn-nameprep
- From: James Seng <James@Seng.cc>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:48:12 +0800
- CC: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:52:11 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> At 3:49 PM -0400 8/13/00, Keith Moore wrote:
> >2. the server realizes that there are multiple names which might
> > match the one that the client typed in. so it returns a list.
> > in this case the client has to provide some mechansism that
> > allows the user to choose.
>
> This forces a significant change in the way applications use the DNS
> (including expecting a person to be able to choose by context). That
> seems pretty extreme for a problem where we have much simpler
> solutions.
I dont like the multiple names possibility idea. Basic feature of DNS is
that it is a 1-1 or N-1 mapping of names to a resource. Once you go from
1-N and N-N, you lose a lot of functionity including the ability to do
Email and consistency is names.
-James Seng