A Comment on 9. [1] of the requirements document.

[George Belotsky <george@register.com>]

Section 9. [1] is quoted below.


"  [RFC1035] restricts the encoding of Internet host and domain names
   in the DNS to a subset of the 7-bit US-ASCII character set.  More
   recent standards, such as [RFC2130] and [RFC2277], describe the need
   to develop protocols for an international Internet.  These and other
   standards MUST be considered during the protocol design process to
   ensure world-wide usability of a generic registry registrar protocol."

This is not quite correct.  Quote from RFC1035 follows.

"Although labels can contain any 8 bit values in octets that make up a
label, it is strongly recommended that labels follow the preferred
syntax described elsewhere in this memo, which is compatible with
existing host naming conventions.  Name servers and resolvers must
compare labels in a case-insensitive manner (i.e., A=a), assuming ASCII
with zero parity.  Non-alphabetic codes must match exactly."

Thus, DNS labels can contain arbitrary octets.  If such labels are
properly supported by existing software, it may be possible to make
use this functionality.

George.


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