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Re: [dane] email canonicalization for SMIMEA owner names

Jakob Schlyter <jakob@kirei.se> Fri, 12 December 2014 15:33 UTC

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On 12 dec 2014, at 03:11, Paul Wouters <paul@cypherpunks.ca> wrote:

> A client can lookup the given name, if NXDOMAIN and not all lowercase,
> lowercase it and try again.

IMHO, this is a very reasonable approach that does not require any magic. It is also the reasonable thing to do for a client that actually want to find something.

	jakob

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