Eszett and IDNAv2 vs IDNA2008

[Erik van der Poel]

We would only need a single transaction. Let's take the example
straße, which means "street" in German. IDNA2003 maps this to strasse,
but if you Punycode it directly, you get strae-oqa. I used the "dig"
command to get details of your domain, and then edited the output:

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;strasse.shinkuro.com.      IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
strasse.shinkuro.com.   300 IN  A 66.92.164.104

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
shinkuro.com.   300 IN  NS  UDNS2.ULTRADNS.net.
shinkuro.com.   300 IN  NS  xd--strae-oqa.shinkuro.com.
shinkuro.com.   300 IN  NS  UDNS1.ULTRADNS.net.

As I said, there may well be some good reasons not to do this. I'm
sure DNS experts could come up with some reasons.

Erik

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at shinkuro.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:13:55AM -0700, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>> I didn't say anything about a new RRTYPE. I suggested a convention in
>> authority names to indicate a display preference. There may well be
>> reasons not to have so many different authority names. (I.e. one
>> authority name per name-with-display-preference.)
>
> And how, exactly, are you going to get this "conventional authority
> name" back with the resolution of the A-label-including name, without
> inventing a new RRTYPE that includes special processing?  Or is your
> plan to just ask the DNS, in separate transactions, for these
> different names?  If it's the latter, we're even further from a
> solution.  Eric B-W and I were just discussing this on-list today.