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RE: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top LevelDomain meeting
- To: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenb@netsol.com>, "'Randy Bush'" <randy@psg.com>
- Subject: RE: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top LevelDomain meeting
- From: "Larry Masinter" <LM@att.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:59:17 -0800
- Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
- Delivery-date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:01:06 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
RFC 2396 puts more severe restrictions on host names in URLs:
The host is a domain name of a network host, or its IPv4 address as a
set of four decimal digit groups separated by ".". Literal IPv6
addresses are not supported.
hostport = host [ ":" port ]
host = hostname | IPv4address
hostname = *( domainlabel "." ) toplabel [ "." ]
domainlabel = alphanum | alphanum *( alphanum | "-" ) alphanum
toplabel = alpha | alpha *( alphanum | "-" ) alphanum
RFC 2732 extends the syntax for IPv6 addresses, but otherwise still
restricts it to alphanum.
draft-masinter-url-i18n-04.txt doesn't currently address the issue.
Larry