Re: [idn] Re: hostname history hell

[vint cerf <vinton.g.cerf@wcom.com>]

I think the point in 1912 was to avoid "names" that look like
IP addresses and something ending in ".com" probably would not
create a syntactic problem.

Vint

At 01:43 PM 11/20/2001 -0600, Eric A. Hall wrote:

>"Eric A. Hall" wrote:
>
>> Minimum 2 alphanumeric characters, maximum 63 alphanumeric chars,
first
>> char alphanumeric, last char alphanumeric. Maximum 255 for FQDN. FQDN
>> must contain at least one alpha.
>
>Also note that RFC 1912 (Common DNS Errors) stated that “labels may not
be
>all numbers” and even cites 411.org. and 1776.com. as domain names that
>break this rule. However, RFC 1912 is classified as informational, and
>there is no support for this tighter naming restriction in any
>standards-track documents. This is the source of some confusion.
>
>--
>Eric A. Hall
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