Re: DRAFT-IETF-X400OPS-DNSX400MAPS-03.TXT

Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@inria.fr> Fri, 26 November 1993 13:41 UTC

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From: Peter Sylvester <Peter.Sylvester@inria.fr>
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To: ietf-osi-x400ops@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: Re: DRAFT-IETF-X400OPS-DNSX400MAPS-03.TXT

I misread some paragraphs in RFC 1123 etc. You are right.

Peter

> this was also considered, but the label is part of the <name> key for
> DNS, and this label MUST be a <domain-name>, and thus <alphanumhyphen>
> is the only legal character set. Using illegal characters will also
> create troubles at any old intermediate DNS implementation just involved in
> passing by the query requests.
> 
> Thus the idea was not accepted by the namedroppers group.
> 
> Claudio
> 
>