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

"James Seng" <james@seng.sg> Wed, 02 July 2008 15:39 UTC

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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:41:37 +0800
From: James Seng <james@seng.sg>
To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>
Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?
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Which brings up a question can a TLD be used like a domain name?

not just http://microsoft/ but bill.gate@microsoft will likely to fail to.

james

2008/7/2 Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker@verisign.com>:
> Another like restriction that might be investigated is whether
> http://microsoft/ or other similar corporate TLDs would work as intended
> with deployed legacy browsers.
>
> I suspect (but have not tried) that if you simply type 'Microsoft' into the
> address bar of some browsers you might have the keyword immediately
> interpreted as a search term, not an address to visit.
>
>
> I also suspect that if we actually read the technical specs being proposed
> we might find that some of these issues have already been anticipated in
> them and addressed.
>
>
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> From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of Dave Crocker
> Sent: Tue 7/1/2008 12:44 PM
> To: Tony Finch
> Cc: IETF Discussion
> Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?
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>
> Tony Finch wrote:
>>>> Speaking technically, how would you distinguish the top-level domain
>>>> "127.0.0.1" from the IP address 127.0.0.1?
>>> A word while passing here: is there a document (RFC, Posix standard,
>>> whatever) which says which is the right result in such a case?
>>
>> RFC 1123 section 2.1, especially the last sentence.
>
> Interesting.
>
> I hadn't noticed the implication of that, before, but it seems to be a
> pretty
> clear technical specification that a top-level domain is not allowed to be a
> decimal number.  Ever.
>
> That's a concrete constraint on what ICANN is permitted to authorize.
>
> d/
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