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

[Simon Josefsson <simon+idn@josefsson.org>]

Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se> 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?

Downcasing is performed on names in the on-the-wire-format RR, before
creating/verifying a signature.