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Re: [port-srv-reg] Four final points for discussion

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com> Tue, 07 September 2010 06:33 UTC

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On 3 Sep 2010, at 10:20, Joe Touch wrote:

> If we want to require an alpha - which would be fine - both the English
> and BNF would need to be revised, AND we would need to re-scrub the
> current table and create a new list of corrective aliases for legacy
> names that wouldn't work, if any (I don't think there are).

I just checked the current ports list for any service names containing text of the form "number-number", and found only three:

mil-2045-47001
ecovisiong6-1
802-11-iapp

All contain other letters as well, so it's not a problem.

I don't think this is a big shock to any of us. I would have been surprised if there were any short name that was just "number-number", and indeed there is not. That no one has registered a short name like this in the decades leading up to now is also a good sign that it would not be not an unreasonable limitation to prohibit such names in the future.

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>
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