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

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

Dear John,

>If you only care about C, you can do that with bundling, have the registry 
>assign all variants of a requested name to the registrant, and let the 
>registrant deal with making them the same, by copies of the zone.  It's 
>not particularly elegant, but it requires no changes to existing protocol 
>and the software is not very complicated.

I guess you know we are the Registry of [.gr] domain names. If we are asking
for a different solution than simple bundling and letting the registrant
deal with the issue this should mean something about bundling, right? When
an issue is so common that all your IDN registrants have to register bundles
and "deal with making them the same", it appears to be a good thing if the
registry can assist on such an issue.

The registrants have not asked for IDNA2003 or IDNA2008 to be implemented as
they were, protocols with shortcomings. However, since the IDNA protocols
are well in use by now, a BNAME type solution could make life easier for the
average user.

>Except that, as often noted, if the servers they point to don't have some 
>way to discover that the names are intended to be equivalent, the services 
>won't work.  The assumptions so far seem to be either that the services 
>are something like telnet that doesn't care what its name is, or that 
>they'll be manually provisioned, which seems unlikely to work except in 
>the tiniest cases.

My guess is that when the solution is available, many services will benefit
from it and use it.

Kind Regards,

Vaggelis Segredakis