[Errata Held for Document Update] RFC5890 (4824)

Markus Scherer markus.icu at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 22:18:22 CEST 2016


On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 1:10 PM, RFC Errata System <rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org
> wrote:

> Corrected Text
> --------------
> Because A-labels (the form actually used in the
> DNS) are potentially much more compressed than UTF-8 (and UTF-8 is,
> in general, more compressed that UTF-16 or UTF-32), U-labels that
> obey all of the relevant symmetry (and other) constraints of these
> documents may be quite a bit longer, potentially up to 59 Unicode
> code points, or up to 236 octets.
>
> Notes
> -----
> (The same rationale as my report for 2.3.2.1 applies:)
>

Same comment as I just sent for that other correction -- much better to
drop the ", or up to 236 octets": It is confusing and irrelevant.

Best regards,
markus
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