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

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Wed, 17 November 2010 09:23 UTC

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:24:09 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com>
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:48:18AM -0500,
 Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com> wrote 
 a message of 47 lines which said:

> Given what I have seen in other TLD-checking type code, I'd bet a
> pretty good lunch that anything _starting_ with a digit in the top
> level will run into all sorts of troubles.

Correct, but it is not a sufficient reason to hardwire it in an IETF
standard. For instance, .MUSEUM or .TRAVEL had (and still have) a lot
of problems with broken regular expressions "[a-z]{2,4}" but we did
not update RFC 1123 to add a length limit to TLDs.

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