Re: [Hipsec] rfc5201-bis-04 internationalized domain names

"Henderson, Thomas R" <thomas.r.henderson@boeing.com> Tue, 06 September 2011 15:59 UTC

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From: "Henderson, Thomas R" <thomas.r.henderson@boeing.com>
To: 'Samu Varjonen' <samu.varjonen@hiit.fi>, "hipsec@ietf.org" <hipsec@ietf.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:00:44 -0700
Thread-Topic: [Hipsec] rfc5201-bis-04 internationalized domain names
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> > "
> > The format for the FQDN is defined in [RFC1035] Section 3.1.
> > Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) MAY be included in the Domain
> > Identifier (DI). Conforming implementations MUST convert IDNs to the
> > ASCII compatible Encoding (ACE) format as specified in Section 4 of
> > [RFC3490] before storage to the DI. When comparing the FQDNs for
> > equality, conforming implementations MUST perform a case-insensitive
> > exact match on the entire FQDN. Conforming implementations should
> > convert IDNs to Unicode before display by performing the conversion
> > operation specified in Section 4 of [RFC3490]. The non-conforming
> > implementations may identify IDNs by checking the inclusion of the
> IDN
> > ACE label additional characters "xn--" in any capitalization. All
> > implementations MUST allow for increased space requirements for IDNs
> in the DI.
> >
> > The format and internationalization for NAI is defined in [RFC4282].
> > "
> >
> > Comments and a sanity check would be appreciated.
> >

I don't have any objection to adding the above (I can't really provide a sanity check since I'm not familiar with IDNs and we haven't tried to implement this).

- Tom