Re: [dnsext] we need help to make names the same, was draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02 comment

Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@icsi.berkeley.edu> Wed, 23 February 2011 02:01 UTC

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On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> 
> Specific proposals on the sameness problem I made this time are:
> 
> 	to give up to have localized domain name
> 
> or
> 
> 	develop extended case insensitivity description language
> 
> and
> 
> 	to give up DNSSEC or run extended case insensitivity
> 	database on clients

OR use DNSSEC but sign data dynamically.

10 years ago, online signatures may have been questionable computationally.  Today, online signatures are near-trivial computationally.