Re: [idn] Re: [MultiLingualList] Changes to RACE

["James Seng" <James@Seng.cc>]

*doh* i bounced my own mail...:P

----- Original Message -----
> Hmm..make sense. Should we have a de-nameprep? :-)))
>
> -James Seng
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu>
> To: "James Seng" <James@seng.cc>
> Cc: <mltestbed@nsiregistry.net>; "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <phoffman@imc.org>;
> <idn@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [idn] Re: [MultiLingualList] Changes to RACE
>
>
> > > IMHO, this requirement should be done at the nameprep level, and not the
> RACE
> > > transformation. Supposing we decided to move away from RACE to something
> else
> > > (just example sake), we can ensure this behavior is consistent.
> >
> > an equally important requirement is that RACE strings cannot *decode*
> > to pure ASCII text.  if the decoding results in pure ASCII, this
> > needs to be treated as an error.   otherwise RACE could be used to
> > spoof ASCII domain names.
> >
> > this check has to be part of the decoding, it can't be checked in
nameprep.
> >
> > but it does apply to any encoding and not specifically to RACE.
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
>
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