Additional thoughts on TRANSITIONAL

[Shawn Steele]

Right now IE lower-cases everything regardless of the DNS record, however presumably they could exist.   Additionally, assuming "case-preserving" really means that everyone registers lower case forms, then we have "case-insensitive" DNS, which IS fairly interesting.  It isn't hard to find links to sites using an initial upper case or camel cased forms.

-Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: "Martin J. Dürst" [mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp] 
Sent: ??????, ???????? 07, ??? 2009 2:56
To: Shawn Steele
Cc: idna-update at alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: Additional thoughts on TRANSITIONAL

Hello Shawn,

On 2009/12/05 4:25, Shawn Steele wrote:


> Additionally, IF we chose to address the presentation aspect of the problem,
then we could also address numerous other presentation problems at the 
same time.
English users are currently happy, DNS is "case preserving", so they can 
get Microsoft.com or AAA.com or CamelCase.com if they want.

I tried www.MicroSoft.com and www.AAA.com, and in both cases, the 
upper-case letters get changed to lowercase by DNS (*not* as a result of 
a HTTP redirect, which happens at both sites). So if English users are 
currently happy, it sure cannot be because of the casing properties of 
the current (ASCII-only) DNS, or can it?

Regards,   Martin.

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