[DNSOP] Variant bad idea of the day

2018-12-31 Thread John R Levine
Let's assume for the purposes of argument that we have a DNS server that knows how to translate between A-labels an U-labels. Then I invent this DNS record foo VARIANT n1 n2 n3 n4 ... The fields are 32 bit ints, each of which is interpreted as a UTF-32 code point. The meaning is that in the

Re: [DNSOP] Variant bad idea of the day

2018-12-31 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 1 Jan 2019, at 1:28, John R Levine wrote: > foo VARIANT n1 n2 n3 n4 ... > > The fields are 32 bit ints, each of which is interpreted as a UTF-32 code > point. The meaning is that in the subtree at and below this name, n1 is a > canonical code point and the rest are variants. If you get a re