Technical Summary
Domain Name System (DNS) names are "case insensitive". This document
explains exactly what that means and provides a clear specification
of the rules. This clarification updates RFCs 1034 and 1035.
Working Group Summary
This document was produced by the dnsext WG.
Protocol Quality
This document was reviewed for the IESG by Thomas Narten and Margaret
Wasserman
RFC Editor Note
Dear RFC Editor,
In the Security Considerations section, please expand the acroynm "RP" as
follows and add a reference to RFC 1183 to the Informative References section.
In the Security Consideration section:
OLD:
address local parts, an attempt to store two "RP" records that
NEW:
address local parts, an attempt to store two Responsible Person (RP)
[RFC 1183] records that
And, in the informative reference section:
OLD:
[ISO 8859-2] - International Standards Organization, Standard for
Character Encodings, Latin-2.
NEW:
[ISO 8859-2] - International Standards Organization, Standard for
Character Encodings, Latin-2.
[RFC 1183] - C. Everhart, et. al., "New DNS RR Definitions", October 1990.
Thanks,
Margaret