Re: Last Call: draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check

[=JeffH <[e-mail]>]

Paul Hoffman replied..
 >
 > At 5:22 AM -0400 7/17/10, John C Klensin wrote:
 >> (1) In Section 4.4.1, the reference should be to the IDNA2008 discussion.
 >> The explanations are a little better vis-a-vis the DNS specs and it is a
 >> bad idea to reference an obsolete spec.
 >
 > +1. I accept blame on this one, since I was tasked on an earlier version to
 > bring the IDNA discussion up to date.

Well, I wrote the "traditional domain name" text in -tls-server-id-check, and 
yes I looked at IDNA2008, but only -idnabis-protocol I think, and missed 
-idnabis-defs where said discussion resides. So mea culpa. Yes, the latter 
discussion is even better than the one in IDNA2003. Thanks for catching this.

Here's a re-write of the first para of -tls-server-id-check Section 4.4.1, I've 
divided it into two paragraphs..

    The term "traditional domain name" is a contraction of this more
    formal and accurate name: "traditional US-ASCII
    letter-digit-hyphen DNS domain name". Note that
    letter-digit-hyphen is often contracted as "LDH". (Traditional)
    domain names were originally defined in [DNS-CONCEPTS] and
    [DNS] in conjunction with [HOSTS], though
    [I-D.ietf-idnabis-defs-13] provides a complete, up-to-date
    domain name label taxonomy.

    Traditional domain names consist of a set of one or more
    non-IDNA LDH labels (e.g., "www", "example", and "com"), with
    the labels usually shown separated by dots (e.g.,
    "www.example.com"). There are additional qualifications, see
    [I-D.ietf-idnabis-defs-13], but they are not germane to this
    specification.


how does that look?


thanks,

=JeffH