Re: [DNSOP] Fwd: Last Call: (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard

2011-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
There are label segments that have semantics. The "--" violation, prepended by something, "^xn", where "^" indicates a label boundary, to indicate a (the current) "IDN" processing. Bytes within a label with values in excess of 127. Off hand I can't think of anything else (that is intentional)

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] Fwd: Last Call: (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard

2011-01-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-01-18, at 10:17, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Joe Abley: > >> I don't think special-use names are a concept of the DNS in the >> protocol sense, but rather a set of administrative conventions. > > LOCAL. is very much protocol-enshrined, but I think it has been > reserved neither by IETF no

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] Fwd: Last Call: (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard

2011-01-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joe Abley: > I don't think special-use names are a concept of the DNS in the > protocol sense, but rather a set of administrative conventions. LOCAL. is very much protocol-enshrined, but I think it has been reserved neither by IETF nor IANA. Would any other reserved name share a similar fate?

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] Fwd: Last Call: (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard

2011-01-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-01-17, at 23:46, Ralph Droms wrote: > FYI; review and comment requested... Comments below, in-line. > Special-Use Domain Names > draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-01 > > Abstract > >This document describes what it means to say that a DNS