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

["Vaggelis Segredakis" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Eric,

>err, well, yes in principle, and no in practice. that is, a series of 
>pick-according-to-taste-or-belief{blunders, errors, accidents, acts of 
>genius} has lead to some specific use cases. han sc/tc. greek tonos. 
>failing to solve leads to unintended consequences.

I couldn't agree more with your last sentence above. Before landing in this
WG with this issue I tried to explain the situation back when the first
protocol of IDNs was designed. The belief then that a protocol should not
take into consideration specific issues but rather stick to the "domains are
not words" motto brought us all ten years later to the point of discussing
adding rr types in DNS, rather than designing correctly a translating
application-layer protocol right from the beginning, with formatting data
etc to solve all problems.

Best,

Vaggelis Segredakis