From: Mark Davis (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 13:36:24 CST
Re #1. This document is written presuming that IDNA2008 is approved as it is
in the current draft. Whether or not I'd agree with you, if you have any
concerns about IDNA2008, this isn't the forum to voice them. (Note: I have a
personal document at https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfqr8rd5_361dwv9cff8,
but note that that is a personal contribution.)
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Re #2. "[\-a-zA-Z0-9]" as "[a-zA-Z0-9-]"
This is a bit tricky, because "-" is a syntax character, and *only* by
convention is "-" at the start or end of the whole range treated as a
literal; but that convention that can vary between regex engine. So the most
neutral expression is to quote it specifically.
Re #3. About the underbar - people wiser than I in the ways of ASCII domain
names have said that _ is prohibited, and the IDNA specs certainly disallow
it. You might raise this question on the IDNA list if you want an answer.
Mark
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:21, Troy <tjk@tksoft.com> wrote:
> 1.
> The document states that allowing names to be interpreted differently by
> different applications would cause a "huge interoperability problem."
>
> Then, right after a table listing some examples, the document goes on to
> say that "[An IDNA2008-conformant implementation] could even decide,
> based on local linguistic mappings, to map #5 and #6 to different valid
> domain names".
>
> Do I understand correctly that it will now become acceptable to have
> "huge interoperability problems," as different applications are certain
> to handle locales differently.
>
> I see it as an improvement that invalid names are no longer allowed.
> I.e. any name which is not already normalized and in lower case will not
> be allowed. This makes it unambiguous as to which name is meant.
>
> Therefore I find it really contradictory that software is allowed to use
> "local mapping" to interpret a name in an unpredictable manner. Two
> domain names, e.g. "ää.com <http://xn--4caa.com>" and "aa.com" can be
owned by two different
> entities, so it cannot be acceptable behavior that a name "Ää.com" can
> be interpreted as "aa.com" by software running under the US locale, and
> as "ää.com <http://xn--4caa.com>" or even "aeae.com" by software running
under the German
> locale.
>
> I think software must interpret the name as "ää.com <http://xn--4caa.com>"
and if it can't,
> reject it as invalid.
>
> 2.
> Wouldn't it be clearer to express "[\-a-zA-Z0-9]" as "[a-zA-Z0-9-]"?
>
> 3.
> The following sentence seems a bit odd:
> "Note also that some browsers allow characters like "_" in domain
> names."
> RFC 1033 recommends a set of characters for domain name labels which
> includes the underscore [a-zA-Z0-9_-]. Therefore it is no surprise that
> they are accepted as valid labels by browsers and other software.
>
> As an aside, why does the pattern of allowed characters exclude the
> underscore character?
>
>
> Troy
>
>
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>
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