Comments on draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-10
Vint Cerf
vint at google.com
Mon Aug 31 19:31:27 CEST 2009
Andrew,
Assuming conforming applications would reject both loookup and registration
of any uppercase ascii then your conclusion seems valid.
What do others think?
V
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Subject: Re: Comments on draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-10
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:46:19AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
> Actually, if they are the output of a Punycode conversion from a
> valid U-label, then they are lower-case (except possibly for the
> prefix, which makes no difference). In that sense, the
> proposed prohibition is just a reminder that A-labels containing
> significant upper case characters are impossible... no new rule
> at all.
This is what I've been trying to determine.
As far as I can tell, for IDNA-aware applications, no U-label that has
an upper case ASCII character in it can possibly be looked up, because
protocol says
Putative labels with any of the
following characteristics MUST BE rejected prior to DNS lookup:
[…]
o Labels containing prohibited code points, i.e., those that are
assigned to the "DISALLOWED" category in the permitted character
table [IDNA2008-Tables].
And tables says that the upper case characters are DISALLOWED, so
everything is fine. If that's right, then I'm not sure why we need to
change anything. If the worry is that some non-conforming application
will look these up without being careful, so what? We can't make
special rules for non-conforming applications, because they're
non-conforming.
A
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