On 7/2/15, 13:34, "DNSOP on behalf of Paul Vixie" <dnsop-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of p...@redbarn.org> wrote:
> > >manning wrote: >> ... STRONGLY suggests that “domain-looking-string” is , in fact, a >> host that is identified using the Internet DNS. > >i agree with this interpretation, which means, it's the spec itself >that's wrong, not hugo's interpretation of it. the internet people >didn't love .UUCP addresses either but that didn't stop them from working. > >what the internet should be doing is defining escape mechanisms for >non-internet systems, rather than saying "we are the only thing you can >use". At the risk of further annoying Andrews ... if there was a definition of domain name in contexts external to the DNS, that would be helpful. Plus, in each context, what are the escape rules, if needed? E.g., At one time, some "funny guy" tried to register ctrl-G as a TLD. (He knows who he is.) How would that be written in a URL?
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