AW: Eszett and Final Sigma (was: Re: Consensus Call Tranche 8 Results)

[Georg Ochsner]

> --On Tuesday, 04 November, 2008 17:51 -0800 Mark Davis
> <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:
> 
> > It is still premature to add eszett and final sigma until we
> > have some accompanying text that addresses the security
> > exploit. The two possibilities I could think of are:
> >

> >    2. Recommend or require that if the name contains either
> > eszett or final    sigma, that any DNS lookup by client
> > software has to be done twice: once    with the original, and
> > once with a second string that has these remapped to    "ss"
> > and sigma respectively, and is then NFC'ed.


To fully understand you, why exactly should this be done? And what would be
your proposed consequences, if the two lookups would resolve differently?

Bye
Georg