Protocol-05

[William Tan]

Hi John,

Here are some comments on the document:

1. Section 3.1 bullet 1

> Whenever a domain name is put into an IDN-unaware domain name
>        slot (see Section 2 and [IDNA2008-Rationale]), it MUST contain
>        only ASCII characters (i.e., must be either an A-label or an LDH-
>        label), or must be a label associated with a DNS application that
>        is not subject to either IDNA or the historical recommendations
>        for "hostname"-style names [RFC1034].

First part of the sentence talks about "domain name", while later
parts use "labels".


2. Section 3.2.1 - "TYPE SRV MUST NOT be A-labels or U-labels". Seems
to me that we are imposing a requirement when there isn't one. Aren't
the first two labels SIMPLY NOT A-labels or U-labels (instead of "MUST
NOT be")?

RFC1700 (referenced from SRV RFC2782) states that "protocol or service
may be up to 40 characters taken from the set of uppercase letters,
digits, and the punctuation character hyphen.  It must start with a
letter, and end with a letter or digit."


=wil


On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 2:56 AM, John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> It has been two weeks since -04 of this document was posted and
> the only substantive comments that seem to suggest document
> changes came in (from Erik) very shortly after that.  In the
> interest of not developing too much lag time between my working
> copy and the version the WG sees, draft-ietf-idnabis-protocol-05
> is now in the posting queue.  The only significant change is the
> new text that Erik proposed.
>
> I'm still awaiting comments on the items identified as needing
> discussion in the Protocol and Rationale issues lists.
>
>    john
>
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