Re: [idn] UTC feedback

[RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>]

At 02:41 17/08/00, Dan Oscarsson wrote:

>>
>>> >but I don't see why it would fail to interoperate if the comparison
>>> >against different spellings were done on the server.
>>> 
>>>         Which DNS server ?
>>
>>the authoritative servers for the zone.
>>
>>caches and resolvers wouldn't be able to return an answer unless
>>they had an exact match (which might be a CNAME record returned
>>from an earlier query).  without an exact match in the cache,
>>they'd have to forward or refer the query to an authoritative server.
>
>That is just like I defined it in my draft. It will allow the possibility
>of implementing different matching rules for .fr and .us, if we do not
>do the matching normalisation in the resolver.

...and for the gTLDs (which do need to support ALL languages) 
we still need a global ruleset...

Ran