In message <20090306211111.gp12...@shinkuro.com>, Andrew Sullivan writes:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:54:58PM -0500, Edward Lewis wrote:
>
> > knowledge of IDNs and the BiDi issue. But when I talked with some folks
> > around the ICANN circus, there was conventional wisdom that there would
> > be no admission of a delegation beginning or ending with a digit to the
> > root zone. This bar was in place because of the BiDi issues as I
> > understand from Patrik Faltstrom's blog.
> >
> > And, from what I have heard, I believe "display issues" is at the heart
> > of the problem.
>
> Ok, so the "no beginning or ending digit" rule is a rule about
> U-labels, and not necessarily about A-labels. So the outstanding
> question, relevant to the draft at hand, is whether the issue is
> important for A-labels as well.
>
> Since this has been a topic of some importance in IDNAbis, I'll ask
> the people over there about it. Patrik is not the only person in that
> community who's on top of this issue.
>
> [Aside: while I'm on the topic of IDNAbis, I've recently again been
> reminded that it'd be really, really good if people with DNS clue
> would have a look at that work to see if there's anything
> problematic.]
>
> > Still, seriously, all this aside, I doubt we will ever want "manpages.5"
> > as a domain name.
>
> But I have no difficulty imagining someone with more money than sense
> wanting .666 as a TLD. And with the latest ICANN policies, they'd have
> a stronger argument than they once did. The question is whether there
> are important technical reasons to say no. "666" could never appear
> as part of an IPv4 address, after all.
1.666 is a valid IP address.
drugs:9.7.x 10:41 {322} % telnet 1.666
Trying 1.0.2.154...
^C
drugs:9.7.x 10:42 {323} %
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