on 6/10/2002 1:33 PM Dave Crocker said the following:
> You want a different DNS than the world has been using for 15 years. This kind of facile argument is pointless to respond to. The simple fact is that a lowercase-only i18n namespace is pretty useless as a global database of named objects. > That's pretty cool. You think that the interpretation of a DNS string > depends on which application is interpreting it. The interpretation of the eight-bit codes in STD13 labels is entirely left to local interpretation. If you disagree with this, you need to reread the thread again. > Please describe two scenarios -- in the current, global Internet -- in > which the same domain name string is interpreted differently by different > applications. Any application which uses eight-bit values applies local interpretation to those codes. Reread the thread. > In particular, your concern is about comparisons No, my concern is with limiting the usefulness of the i18n namespace. I will give you a test question now: tell me anybody should be prohibited from storing application-specific domain names as RR data without kneeling at the lowercase alter. What is the exact problem you foresee with allowing an external application to put whatever they want into the RRs which suit their needs? -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
