Review of draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-10

[Vint Cerf]

john klensin is traveling at the moment so we may not hear from him  
for a day or two. It would be of interest to hear from others on this  
point in the meantime.


On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> At 11:52 AM -0400 8/23/09, Vint Cerf wrote:
>> I thought having the second figure helped to
>> emphasize the scope of identifiers that DNS can support.
>
> I remain unconvinced that this is explaining more than confusing. I  
> would like to hear from others what they think the figure means.
>
>> figure 2 shows where U-labels fit in, so it seems useful to retain.
>
> The use of non-ASCII labels in the DNS protocol is so confusing to  
> many people, I am not sure that this is helpful.
>
>> Perhaps we can reference appropriate RFCs to explain
>> bitstring and binary labels?
>
> If we keep the figure, that would be helpful, because they are *not*  
> defined in RFC 1034 or 1035. If we are inventing new definitions, or  
> changing existing ones, we might be better off just not showing this.