RE: [idn] draft-ietf-idn-requirements-04.txt (revised copy)

[Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:simon+idn@josefsson.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 1:25 PM
> To: James Seng
> Cc: Mark Davis; Karlsson Kent - keka; Zita Wenzel; idn@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [idn] draft-ietf-idn-requirements-04.txt (revised copy)
> 
> 
> James Seng <James@Seng.cc> writes:
> 
> > AFAIK, only DNSSEC need the names to be sorted, and even so, it need
> > not be in any particular order so long you can use it to determine
> > if there is any domain in between.
> > 
> > The only question is where this sorting occur (before/after nameprep
> > and before/after transformation to UTF-8 or ACE).
> 
> DNSSEC's canonical form and order is based on _the wire format_ of
> RRs.  So I think this is already defined.

Does this mean that, as it is now, DNSSEC is case sensitive,
or does DNSSEC include "downcasing" (or whatever) itself?
My understanding is that the "wire format of RRs" by itself
preserves case (for ASCII), it's just the DNS comparisons
that are "ASCII case insensitive".


		/Kent Karlsson