Re: Document Status?

On 04:01 10/09/02, Adam M. Costello said:
>"JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > IDNA: every IDNA will be of the "iesg--xxxx" format.
> > This creates a left to right hierarchy in the domain name space,
> > conflicting with the right to left one.  This new hiearchy is related
> > to a first function.  So this is a functional hierarchy.  Who will
> > manage it, how, will it be recursive when new functions will be added?
> > And most important point "which one has the lead"?
>
>A single function does not constitute a hierarchy.  There will be
>a single prefix that means "warning: this label might need to be
>transformed in a certain way in order to be intelligible to users".
>Theoretically, there could someday be a second prefix that means
>something else, but nothing like that is even on the horizon, so it's
>premature to be worrying about it.  If and when that time comes, the
>questions you pose will be considered and answered.

Sorry, but there are already two levels:

1. with prefix
2. without prefix

This makes a new hierarchy because it creates a difference where DNS knows 
none ...

> > I cannot see any of these problems in my parallel domain scripting
> > scheme, which only consists in hiding upper level labels including
> > "--"?
>
>I'm not sure I remember that scheme, but I think it involved
>interdependencies between the labels in a name.  The working group
>rejected all such schemes long ago.  Labels are often inspected and
>manipulated individually, so it's best if IDNA does not introduce any
>interdependencies between the labels in a name.

The DNS is recursive. You only consider a label in relation with the label 
above.
jfc