[Standards] Re: IDNA text for rfc3920bis

[Alexander Gnauck]

Matthias Wimmer wrote:
> AFAIK in the terms of DNS it is correct to terminate a domain with a 
> point. (E.g. you can also browse to http://www.jabber.org./ instead of 
> http://www.jabber.org/)

good point Matthias.

> As the domain "jabber.org." is resolveable you can send XMPP messages to 
> "stpeter at jabber.org" as well as to "stpeter at jabber.org.". But there is 
> many software around in the jabberspace, that will consider these two 
> JIDs to represent different entities.

so is my software ;-). It would be a easy fix to make it compatible.

> I think that this problem should get resolved RFC3920bis by either 
> forbidding the dot at the end of the domain in the JID or by stating, 
> that "jabber.org" should match "jabber.org." when comparing JIDs.

I agree that we should solve the problem. The easiest would be to forbid 
the dot at the end. Are there use cases where it would make sense to use 
a Jid of the format "user at server.org." ?

I am fine with both, so i am not biased to one of the possible solutions.

Alex