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

[George Belotsky <george@register.com>]

Thanks for making this change, Scott.

George.


On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:25:40PM -0400, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: George Belotsky [mailto:george@register.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 7:25 PM
> > To: Hollenbeck, Scott
> > Cc: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
> > Subject: Re: A Comment on 9. [1] of the requirements document.
> > 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > In sum, RFC 1035 says 2 things:
> > 
> >          (i) store names into DNS as per the ABNF in 2.3.1.
> >         (ii) when implementing DNS software, ensure that it
> >              will be able to support all 8 bits per character
> >              (except the null) as per 2.3.3.
> 
> Last time I checked, this WG was dealing with (i) and not (ii), and the ABNF
> very clearly defines domain and host names using 7-bit US-ASCII characters.
> However, in the interest of concluding this discussion I am willing to
> concede that the requirement text saying "the encoding of Internet host and
> domain names in the DNS" might be misunderstood since 1035 does also
> describe labels in more liberal terms.  How about this for a rewording:
> 
> "[RFC1035] describes Internet host and domain names using characters
> traditionally found in a subset of the 7-bit US-ASCII character set."
> 
> If anyone objects, please include single-sentence alternative wording that
> explains why there is an internationalization issue with domain and host
> names.
> 
> <Scott/>

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