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Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 25 November 2010 17:36 UTC

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>
> I think Joe's pragmatic approach is the right one: document right now
> that whatever the restrictions might historically have been, we are
> quite explicitly going to permit at the very least one class of
> labels.

Yes, but I think that the document should make it abundantly clear that
this restriction arises from the TLD allocation policy (NOT the protocol)
and this policy is subject to change, as in the introduction of long TLDs
and IDNS TLDs.

Tony.
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