Re: [dnsext] WGLC: RFC6195bis IANA guidance

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

I'm not speaking in any sort of chair "here's-the-rules" role, but I
am speaking with the background of what I've learned as a chair of
this WG over time.

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:54:13PM -0400, Donald Eastlake wrote:

> a brand new draft/standard, I'm not sure how this would be settled.
> However, it is not. IANA Considerations for DNS has explicitly
> permitted hyphens in these mnemonics since 2008 (and were silent on
> this point before that) and a mnemonic with a hyphen was allocated
> earlier and remains in the registry today. Under these circumstances,
> I believe the RegEx should not be changed to prohibit hyphens.

I completely agree with Donald's point here.  If we are going to make
a substantive change to the rules along these lines (and one
incompatible with existing registrations), the bar for adoption will
be _much_ higher than if we do not do that.

Best,

A

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