Re: [idn] proposed i18n naming rules

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

ben wrote:

> It was first brought up by Eric H in this thread who said, " U+002E
> (FULL STOP) is ONLY valid for use as a separator when the IHI is
> written out".  I thought it will be a good time to draw the same
> attention to the "Chinese Full Stop" for this WG to consider.

DNS doesn't store the separator. The only place the separator appears is
in domain names that are written-out and stored in data streams. And since
the separators are not encapsulated in the labels (they are separators not
data), they are not subject to encoding, and therefore would always appear
between encoded labels (including ACE labels). So really you are asking
about domain names as they appear in protocol and/or application data. You
would have to update every protocol and application that processes domain
names in order for Chinese Full Stop to be usable as a label separator
everywhere that a domain name was encoded or encapsulated.

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