Re: [dnsext] we need help to make names the same, was draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02 comment

[Alex Bligh <[e-mail]>]

--On 16 February 2011 07:33:38 +0000 John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:

> The pattern language for encoding variant names would probably be more
> complex than people would like, but if we are serious that all the
> spellings of Greek words are equivalent, or traditional and simplified
> Chinese are equivalent, I don't see how anything simpler could do the
> job.

The fact that 2 or more spellings (*) are equivalent does not necessarily
mean both always need to give the same DNS results; indeed as much
trailed previously, this may be undesirable. I still think this is the
wrong "job" to do, so the fact this is might be simplest way of doing
something undesirable is not really a positive. However, except in
the cases of combinatorial explosion, manual provisioning would seem
to be far simpler.

(*) I think it's really about orthographic representation rather than
spelling: we aren't really talking about jail.com and gaol.com, are
we?

-- 
Alex Bligh
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