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

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 30 November 2010 13:08 UTC

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Masataka Ohta wrote:
>
> As the restrictions affect implementations, it is a protocol,
> not policy, matter, just as RFC822 defines allowable e-mail
> format which imposes a lot more restriction than that allowed
> by SMTP of RFC821.

Spec bugs are not protocol/policy differences.

Just because policy can be implemented in code doesn't mean it is
protocol.

Tony.
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