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

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 2:24 PM +0200 8/29/00, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
>  >At 12.15 +0200 00-08-29, Dan Oscarsson wrote:
>>>It does not preserve case. DNS does that today.
>>
>>"preserve case"...hmmm...are you talking about that the case which
>>one types in the application might be changed during the nameprep
>>algorithm before the name is encoded in RACE and sent in a DNS
>>package?
>
>In responses from DNS, the server shall return the case original data
>was entered.

That's not what RFC 1035 says at all. "When data enters the domain 
system, its original case should be preserved whenever possible." 
With IDNRA, the data that enters the domain system has already been 
changed.

>nameprep changes all case to lower case, destroying data.

Correct. It is destroyed on purpose, just as it is destroyed just 
before comparison in today's DNS and then restored after comparison. 
However, this doesn't change RFC 1035. The data entering the domain 
system is not changed by IDNRA.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium