Re: [idn] UTC feedback

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

At/À 17:38 2000-08-20 -0400, Keith Moore you wrote/vous écriviez:
> > well, then if you have 10 accented characters, you have to register every
> > combination... a lot of $$$ for the registries, but not very useful for 
> the
> > user (both the registrant and the internet user that access that domain
> > name)... also, since the registrant wants all those  combinations to be
> > equivalent, then he needs to synchronise all this data together, not
> > forgetting one.  for example, if he wants to change its dns servers for
> > those domain names, then all should be changed.
>
>I can't imagine that this would be a good way to do it.

my point was: don't do it (i.e. handle multiple combination of the "same" 
domain name in registry space).

Regards, Marc.


>  Even if there
>were a RR in the zone file for each of the (2**10 ?!) spellings of the
>label multiplied by the number of name servers, this doesn't have to
>mean multiple registrations.   a single registration should result in the
>creation of all of the necessary zone file entries.
>
>but it also seems like we'd want some way to not have to put each
>entry in the zone file separately - rather, have each entry that
>lacks one or more of the accented characters generated from the
>"master" entry which has all of the accented characters.
>
>it would still be necessary to check for collisions between
>the non-accented versions at registration time.
>
>Keith


Marc Blanchet
Viagénie inc.
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http://www.viagenie.qc.ca

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