EU.net and eu.net database entries

 Piet.Beertema at mcsun.EU.net writes:
 * A day or so ago I submitted a new entry for the EU.net domain,
 * meant to be a change on the current entry. However, I denoted
 * it as "EU.net" (which is the official name) instead of eu.net.
 * Now it appears that the updating software saw this as a *new*
 * entry rather than an update, in other words it doesn't work
 * case-independent. On the other hand the database query s/w
 * does work case-independent, so "whois eu.net" now gives me
 * two entries...
 * Could you remove the old eu.net entry? I dare not submit a
 * change for it to get it deleted, in case the updating s/w
 * decides to start working case-independent in that case...

Sorry Piet, old, old, old software ... The new software will take care of
this, but I think the new software will change everything to lowercase. I
have not written this part yet, have to put some thought in it though.

Anyone in the database working group has any feeling how these should be
dealt with ? From a programming point of view, handling everything lowercase
is much easier, I do not really want to check every single combination of
lower/uppercase before I update something ... Then again, after some thinking
(I usually type faster than I think ;-) the indexing is done in lowercase,
and key lookups are always normalized to lowercase before a lookup.

So the real question is, should entries in the database be left untouched
when it comes to upper/lowercase, or should all be normalized ?

-Marten