New version of strawman for IDNAv2

[Mark Andrews]

In message <20090301225546.uvl~@nicemice.net>, "Adam M. Costello" writes:
> John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com> wrote:
> 
> > --On Friday, February 27, 2009 14:59 -0800 Mark Davis
> > <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am less familiar with the case of Sinhala, but I believe that the
> > > main issue with all of the other Indic-based scripts is the same
> > > as the sigma case.  That is, it is not a significant problem to
> > > identify input strings A and B; the problem is that the one that
> > > is returned from the DNS is not the "correct" form.  That is, the
> > > canonicalization and equivalence class are acceptable, but the
> > > particular representative of that equivalence class that is in the
> > > DNS is not the preferred form.
> >
> > And that is a problem that, unless someone has more insight into the
> > situation than I do, can be solved only with server-side matching.
> 
> I don't see why it's a problem at all.  How common is it for
> applications to display domain names obtained from DNS?  I'm not aware
> that this ever happens except for logging/debugging purposes.

	Mail applications regularly display mail domain names.
	Psi (jabber) does it.  I can change the name displayed in Psi but
	it still defaults to user at service.
 
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