Re: [jose] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-33: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

["Jim Schaad" <[e-mail]>]

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> From: Ted Lemon [mailto:[e-mail]]
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> Subject: Re: [jose] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on
draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-
> 33: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
> 
> On Oct 6, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Jim Schaad <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > I worry that if we starting providing guidance to DNS names, then we
> > need to worry about the I18N implications.  I don't remember if these
> > are both case sensitive and easy to do the case conversion on.
> 
> Isn't this a solved problem?   You convert to the unicode presentation and
> then convert to the canonical case as defined in the unicode standard.
The
> worst case scenario is that you encounter some script where this rule
doesn't
> work, and that script is then in the position that all scripts are in now.

It may be it is, however this makes an assumption that clients are up on how
to do this.  I.e. that JavaScript is going to do it right when I do a
strlower function on a string.  I don't know that this is really the case.
I would hope so but am unsure.