Re: [idn] Re: hostname history hell

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>]

Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
> 
> 1123, at 2.1
>       The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
>       [DNS:4].  One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
>       restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
>       letter or a digit.

That does not say the label may consist of "a single" character, but only
discusses the content of the leading character.

>         a.isi.edu

1035:

|The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names.

|For example, the following strings identify hosts in the Internet:
|
|A.ISI.EDU XX.LCS.MIT.EDU SRI-NIC.ARPA

Does the example override the rule?

Until the 2-char rule inherited from 952 by 1035 is overthrown (which I
wish somebody would state one way or the other), it is implicitly upheld.

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