Re: [dnsext] Name equivalence - thoughts on the Greek issue

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:35:01PM -0300, Brian Dickson wrote:

> For instance, if the encodings of a specific character, with and without
> some special property unique to the language/script of its origin (such as
> Greek "tonos"), were to differ only in the ASCII case of the encoding
> itself, the problem goes away by virtue of DNS case insensitivity.
> 
> This would require (some) encodings that on a per-character basis are
> byte-aligned, meaning each original character becomes an integer number of
> characters.

Uh, I think (1) that this is now well into the weeds for this
discussion and (2) you seem not to be attending to the unhappy fact
that IDNA2008 is all based on UTF-8, and that that bears with it a
large number of issues having to do with Unicode and the way it
happened to develop, historically speaking.

Moreover,

> The rest of RFC 3490 and RFC 3492 would need to be -bis'd to handle the
> additional logic and ACE prefix(es).

your targets are wrong.  The present discussion has been inspired
primarily by the effects of obsoleting 3490 and updating 3491.  One of
those effects was to remove all the mapping from the protocol.

A

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