It appears that Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@icann.org> said:
>>> This document uses ".alt" for the pseudo-TLD in the presentation
>>> format for the DNS, corresponding to a 0x03616c7400 suffix in DNS
>>> wire format. The presentation and on-the-wire formats for non-DNS
>>> protocols might be different.
>>> "
>>>
>>> I had to read this 3 times and I am still not sure what is important and
>>> what not.
>>
>> Doesn't this text also imply that the alt label is case-sensitive?
>
><sigh> Yes. We have at least three options:
>
>1) Pick one capitalization of "alt" and use the binary representation of that;
>for example "alt".
>
>2) Pick two capitalizations of "alt" and use the binary representations of
>those; for example "alt" and "ALT".
>
>3) Use all nine possible representations ("alt", "Alt", "ALt", ... "ALT")
4) Say in English prose that since the DNS ignores ASCII case
distinctions, all versions of .alt are excluded from the DNS, but it's
up to each non-DNS thing to choose which if any of the versions it
uses and it how it interprets them.
R's,
John
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