To:
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc:
ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Date:
Tue, 06 Aug 2002 00:19:50 -0700
In-Reply-To:
<20020806070350.GA9690@nic.fr>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: Sending the original (Unicode) domain name as well as the ACE?
At 09:03 AM 8/6/2002 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >This issue was raised on the Crisp mailing list ><URL:http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/crisp-charter.html>. It seems >it could be a good idea, for the registry, to store the original >(Unicode) form of an IDN, as well as its ACE (ASCII-encoded) form. > >It would allow more searches (Crisp protocols do not perform only >exact-match searches but also partial-name searches, which are not >possible on the ACE form). ace is an encoding form. so is utf-8. so is utf-16. all of them are unicode. so ace is just as much "original (Unicode)" as utf-8 or utf-16. There is no informational benefit in having the string stored in two different encodings. There also is not computational benefit, given that the strings are so short. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850