At 01:48 PM 9/4/2002 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
> > Sorry, but IDNA very much does define an enhanced character space for
> > domain names.
>
>true in display and input (that is what i meant),

you need to distinguish between the abstract, formal name space, versus the 
over-the-wire encoding of that name space.

the current specification does not make this distinction clear, but that is 
a problem with the documentation, not the formal change.


> > Please provide descriptions of specific usage scenarios that demonstrate
> > technical failings that are special to IDNA.
>
>If some company don't want to trust and invite IDN and don't want to 
>modify its applications,
>but, IDN is encoded in trusted ASCII and penetrate into the applications and
>get trusted by the unmodified applications as other trusted ASCII domains.

You are concerned that an IDNA string somehow has a lower level of 
authentication than a regular, ASCII DNS string?

This cannot be true, since an IDNA string is a regular ASCII DNS string.

>  IN protocol world,
>Dynamic DNS updates protocols are affected directly by that holes.

IDNA introduces no changes to the mechanism for Dynamic DNS updating.

d/


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