At 2:26 PM -0800 2/1/02, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > Client A sends out a character that will never match something that >> could be stored in a name server under -07 (because it is unassigned) >> or under -08 or later (because it is mapped to nothing). Why would >> you expect the server to ever match it? What is the problem here that >> you see and that I don't? > >No I don't expect the server to match it, since it is deleted. All I am >saying is that the assumption that has been stated here many times that "an >application that uses a former version of Nameprep to speak to a server >using a later one has nothing to worry about because it just passes all >unassigned codepoints (from its former Nameprep perspective) to the server" >is not true. If that assumption is old / has been revised then I am just >wasting your bandwidth :)
I think so. :-) "Nothing to worry about" means "the server won't falsely give a positive result when it should have been negative". You should worry if the protocol had a state where the client was asking for something that would never exist but the server could mistakenly give a positive answer. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
