draft-liman-tld-names-00.txt and bidi

Martin Duerst duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Sat Mar 7 13:36:01 CET 2009


At 20:02 09/03/07, Vint Cerf wrote:
>Martin, et al,
>
>I would have thought that any notion of all-digit labels would be  
>hazardous in the event they lead to confusion with dotted IP address  
>notations and would therefore be forbidden?

Yes, but Andrew said that some people are trying to allow e.g. 666
because that can't be confused with a dotted IP address (where 255
is the highest possible number). And I was commenting strictly on
the bidi implications of (among else) all-digit labels.

Regards,   Martin.


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