Re: [dane] FYI: New Version Notification for draft-hoffman-dane-smime-04.txt

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> From: dane-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:dane-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Paul Hoffman
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:03 PM
> To: IETF DANE WG list
> Subject: Re: [dane] FYI: New Version Notification for draft-hoffman-dane-
> smime-04.txt
> 
> On Sep 11, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Jakob Schlyter <jakob@kirei.se> wrote:
> 
> > On 11 sep 2012, at 17:30, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Which of the problems is this trying to solve?
> >
> > All three.
> 
> +1.
> 
> Jim knows full well the issue with case conversion (or at least he should
> remember it from the two times he and I have discussed it in depth over
the
> past eight years) is not just about case conversion. All
internationalization is
> dealt with the same way. If someone has a list of equivalences they want
> their LHS to be known as, it is trivial for them to populate the DNS with
> SMIMEA records for all of those. There is no way we would tell them what
> those equivalences would be, not to tell the searcher what they should be
> searching for.

I completely agree that we are not going to tell implementers what the
solution is, that is a long ways from not saying that this is a problem that
needs to be addressed by the systems that are populating the DNS.  I think
that the problem itself needs to be described and discussed.  

I am fully aware that there are systems in the United States where the case
folding does not occur when mail is delivered or when the address in an
email message is compared with the address in a certificate.  This means
that it not automatic that there is single way of solving the problem.  It
does not however mean that there is not a problem that needs to be
discussed.

Jim

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