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Re: [DNSOP] draft-liman-tld-names-04

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com> Wed, 17 November 2010 12:18 UTC

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:20:56AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> I believe that no requirement needs to be relaxed to allow A-labels. A
> clarification might be helpful.

If no requirement is needed, then no document is needed, because the
policy realm was ceded to ICANN some years ago.  We can remain quiet
and wait for someone at ICANN to write a document somewhere that
clarifies that they have changed the policy that used to be expressed
in RFC 1123.

> That is blatantly broken. There is no need for any heuristic to tell IP
> addresses and host names apart. This kind of code should be mocked, not
> accommodated.

To my mind, this is a way of saying that anyone who has to live with
broken implementations by people who half-understand the huge volume
of DNS-related RFCs is just sweet out of luck.  Too bad for them.  Is
that really what we want to say?

A
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Andrew Sullivan
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