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Re: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top LevelDomain meeting
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 Mark.Andrews@nominum.com wrote:
>
> > Telnet uses host names.
> > Email uses host names or mail domains (these should both be
> > syntactically identical).
> > HTTP uses host names.
> > Traceroute uses host names.
> > hosts.equiv uses host names.
> > host.allow/host.deny uses host names.
> >
> > Personally I would like to see a similar distinction with IDNS.
> > i.e. any character in a international domain name, a very
> > restricted character set(s) in a international host name.
>
> I must confess that I am quite new to this mailing list.
> If my question is silly, please forgive me.
>
> The above list shows that most major applications use host names.
> Then, in what applications, can/do we use domain names?
Windows 2000 makes extensive use of domains that are not
host names.
Hesoid makes use of domains that are not host names.
Mark
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