Re: [idn] additional comments from draft-ietf-idnra-00.txt

[Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>]

>Well, one of the ideas with IDNRA was that Paul and I wanted to show 
>that the functional requiremens on using internationalized 
>domainnames in applications can be solved without changing the 
>characters used for hostnames in the DNS and other protocols. Just by 
>upgrading applications and resolvers. In that sense ther is a "D" 
>component.

Of what I can see it fails on at least:

[2] The service MUST preserve the basic concept and facilities of domain
names as described in [RFC1034]. It MUST maintain a single, global,
universal, and consistent hierarchical namespace.

It does not preserve case. DNS does that today.

   Dan