[regext] Re: simplifying the extensions rules

"Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com> Wed, 02 April 2025 15:57 UTC

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From: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pawel Kowalik <kowalik@denic.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 11:38 AM
> To: Andrew Newton (andy) <andy@hxr.us>; regext@ietf.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [regext] Re: simplifying the extensions rules
>

[SAH] [snip]

> Also talking about 22 issues seems an amplification to me, as one may think all
> those were related to bare identifiers. If I recall well, being an author of most of
> those reported issues, that maybe 2 or 3 of them were anyhow related. Worth
> noting that the most complex rules are defined to exclude conflicts of identifier
> prefixes (Section 2.2, paragraph 3, Issue #49). In my eyes still underspecified.
> Bare identifiers are very simple in handling in comparison - either they are
> registered or not... just saying.

[SAH] Mostly, but there are still character case considerations.

Scott