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Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Tue, 08 July 2008 18:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?
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Keith Moore wrote:
|> RFC1043 defines the dot. The fact that some apps don't recognize it is a
|> bug.
|
| not when the application explicitly specifies that FQDNs are to be used.
| in such cases the dot is superfluous.

Superfluous is fine. Prohibited is not. If the app inputs DNS names,
then FQDNs should be valid, even if redundant.

Joe
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