Re: [DNSOP] draft-liman-tld-names-04

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

>> And, under ISO 8859/1, it does not even depend,
> 
> ISO 8859-1 is completely irrelevant here,

If your local encoding is ISO 8859/1, you can input 'Y', but not
'Y' with diaeresis.

If your local encoding is Unicode but you are accustomed to ISO
8859/1 environment, you will input 'Y', but not 'Y' with diaeresis.

It does not affect abstract definitions of IDNA2008 but does
affect DNS operations.

> because how you get to the
> point of having a U-label is totally out of scope for the IDNA2008
> specification.

It's totally irrelevant.

> It is certainly true that the DNS-protocol case preservation but case
> insensitivity matching rules are not internationalized exactly as one
> might like in IDNA2008.  Without DNSng, I have no idea how to solve
> that.

I have no idea how it can be solved with DNSng. What is your
proposal for the DNSng?

> But you seem to be willfully ignoring that IDNA2008 actually
> does address this, although in an uncomfortable and somewhat
> unsatisfying way.

The problem is that localized domain names are not operational
at large scale at least with the current DNS.

> IDNA is shipping.

The problem is that localized domain names are not operational
at large scale at least with the current DNS.

						Masataka Ohta