Tatuya-san,

Again, thanks for your interest and the review.

Regarding the way to represent the FQDN, the authors do not have any hard 
position. It seems to us that plain ASCII is easier and shorter.

You have a good point that we need to make it clear in the text that "foo.com" 
is the same ID as "FoO.CoM" or as "foo.com." (unsure whether we want to go to 
the octal representation).

FQDNs as plain ASCII are shorter than 'compressed DNS format' when written in a 
usual way using ASCII without any octal escape, or, did I fail to understand 
you?

The next rev of the I-D will keep ASCII (for now) but with the clarification 
about case, octal (or whatever), and the final '.'.

Thanks again

-éric

On 04/10/17 19:02, "[email protected] on behalf of 神明達哉" 
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:

    At Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:04:47 +0000,
    "Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <[email protected]> wrote:
    
    > - FQDN syntax... one previous version was requiring the DNS format but it 
was longer than the current ASCII format and more complex to parse by 
implementers.
    
    What do you mean by "it was longer than the current ASCII format"?  As
    I pointed out in my own comment
    (https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/int-area/current/msg06039.html)
    in the worst case textual representation of a domain name is way much
    longer than that in the binary form (1004 vs 255).  I also doubt this:
    "more complex to parse by implementers".  Textual representation of a
    domain name involves a lot more corner cases than the binary form,
    such as escaping special characters or the \DDD form.  Perhaps the
    concern was not about parsing the binary form but about producing
    corresponding textual form to use it in a URL?  If so, yes, that can
    be tricky.  But since you would need to validate the complicated
    textual form if you received a textual domain name in RA anyway, I
    don't think that is a valid argument to adopt the textual form.
    
    (I'm not necessarily arguing for the binary form, but so far I simply
    don't see a sensible reason for the choice).
    
    --
    JINMEI, Tatuya
    

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