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Re: [idn] IDN refocus, v4





On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, James Seng/Personal wrote:

[snip]

> Right! As I said, we are not disagreeing :-) But I think it is useful to
> continue this discussion as I think it is leading somewhere.
>
> Definition:
>
> domain names - any 8-bit characters, usually (but not neccessary)
> US-ASCII
>
> host names - limited to LDH, no leading or trailing "-", delimited by
> ".", cannot contain have all digits-only labels

I believe host names can be all digits, don't know if its in a rfc but
there are hosts and lables that are all digets.

-rick