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

[Jay Ashworth <[e-mail]>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Barton" <[e-mail]>

> Subject: Re: [dnsext] we need help to make names the same, was draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02 comment
> On 02/15/2011 20:17, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > And, as has been pointed out in some other venues, and which seems
> > applicable here also, some approachs to certain things *depend on
> > trying a DNS lookup and having it break*. I'm damned if I can remember what
> > the canonical example was, but it fell in the general category of
> > "please don't make this change to try to 'help' 'the web', cause
> > you'll break*my* protocol which isn't http".
> 
> It would be really great if we could find a pointer to that discussion,
> since some of us are still working on trying to solve the problem and
> would prefer not to make things worse. :)

Well, clearly it was some thread I was involved in, and it was either 
on namedroppers (which this is the child of, right?) or NANOG, and it was
in the context, I think, of Unicode more generally than I18N names (which 
is the present context, right? I wandered in late).

And I'm pretty sure I Told You So.  :-)

I'll see if I can either locate it in someone's archives or remember
what it was; the argument -- that whatever machination someone was trying 
to apply to DNS that would make DNS work better would break lots of 
other protocols -- was not mine; I was merely kibitzing, as I so often do.

Cheers,
-- jra
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