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Re: [idn] IDN refocus, v4



> > labels can all be digits. host names cant.
>
> If memory serves, we fixed the 3com problem in 1123, so someone is
making
> the claim that "3" can't be a hostname. In my more unimaginative youth
I
> used digits as hostnames, which only proves I've fewer hosts now.
>
> Chapter and verse would be helpful, unless I've somehow managed to
misquote
> or mischaracterize yet another of James' wild swings at authority, and
he
> actually wrote "hostnames can (be all digits also)".

host names - limited to LDH, no leading or trailing "-", delimited by
".", cannot contain have all digits-only labels

read: *all* digits-only labels

-James Seng