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)
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
* 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?
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