[dnsext] Terminological precision (was: the same in old days, was making names the same NEED protocol changes?)

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:50:56PM -0500, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
> do you seriously think phillip was contemplating playing shuttlecock  
> with a pair of labels, one GB, one Big5?

Speaking as one who is going to have the happy task of determining
consensus on this topic, but with no particular official role, I
appreciate Ted's insistence on terminological precision.

For instance, I foolishly failed to cut off a debate about mixed case
lookup, which led to speculation about problems that nobody actually
has.  I was wrong to have let it go on, and I'd like to learn from
that mistake by not making it again.  Allowing discussions of more
than one character set is actually going to be worse, because some
people will forget that we're talking always about DNS labels, which
either have no character set at all or else are US-ASCII (and likely
LDH, at that).

A

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