- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:02:17 -0800
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 11/15/12 5:45 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Well and it is validated. You definitely parse the string Yes, absolutely. > but I can > see how that is cheaper than transforming the string. And that string > is then passed to the DNS layer? I don't know offhand. I'd have to go dig... > We could define that instead I suppose although it seems kind of weird > to normalise domain names, but not IP addresses. We could offer an API > instead I suppose that does implement > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-4 Just to be clear, I don't necessarily object to normalizing IPv6 addresses. Especially since I'm no longer actively working on networking code, so it's not like it would be work for _me_. I just mentioned the only concern I had about your proposal, which in general sounds excellent. -Boris
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