What registries might do (was: Consensus Call on Latin Sharp S and Greek Final Sigma)
Shawn Steele
Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com
Tue Dec 1 19:21:38 CET 2009
> No, there are not mapping rules at all for ASCII characters. The DNS
> is case-preserving but case-insensitive, which is slightly different
> from mapping.
Technical gobbledegook. If an end users types Microsoft.com, it gets them to microsoft.com, they aren't going to make a subtle technical distinction. Most users can't even figure out that paypal.safe.com isn't really "safe", how do we expect them to understand subtle technical differences in casing behavior? Certainly the end-users expect case insensitivity, that's what we appear to have given them.
> it is reasonable to imagine
> that people will adapt for the case of non-ASCII characters too.
So am I understanding correctly: MICROSOFT.com will get me to microsoft.com if I happen to use a capital letters, but BÜCHER.de won't get me to bücher.de? How is that supposed to make sense to end users?
> > C) In addition it's the existing practice of IDNA2003, and there's not really good rules.
> Right. We chartered work to make changes to IDNA2003. You seem to be
> arguing that we should not have done that. As I already remarked,
> that's a big claim and I think you will need to defend it.
I'm beginning to think the charter is really broken.
-Shawn
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