the ^G registration was done prior to RFC 1123 being written. I think, this whole discussion (particularly Ed Lewis’s POV about wire formats v. readings from RFC 1034 suggest reopening the can’o’worms that was/is the IDN debate and 8bit clean, native Unicode, etc.
Regarding Andrew S. recognition that the horse has left the barn (.local, .onion, etc.) there are two options open: 1) close the door before others escape and completely pollute the watershed, 2) throw in the towel and give up manning bmann...@karoshi.com PO Box 12317 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 310.322.8102 On 2July2015Thursday, at 15:26, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > > In message <d1bafc60.ca8f%edward.le...@icann.org>, Edward Lewis writes: >> 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 =E2=80=9Cdomain-looking-string=E2=80=9D 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? > > In a domain name: \007 (RFC 1034 presentation encoding) > In a host name: not possible as it is outside the allowable syntax. > In a url it would depend upon the scheme. It would not be valid for > http:, https: or mailto: to start with as all three are restricted to > using hostnames. For those schemes where it is valid input %07. > > Mark > -- > Mark Andrews, ISC > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
