[142092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jun 17 21:47:59 2011
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:47:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110618013328.18875.qmail@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
> >The notion of a single-component FQDN would be quite a breakage for
> >the basic concept of using both FQDNs and Unqualified names.
>
> Well, you know, there's a guy whose email address has been n@ai for
> many years. People have varying amounts of success sending him mail.
My Zimbra UI says it "might be invalid"; the default postfix config inside
it tries to send it to n@ai.baylink.com, and complains because the domain
won't resolve.
If I'm reading 3.2.4 of 2822 properly (that notation is one I'm not
entirely familiar with, and should be), that really is a valid 2822
address, as odd as it sounds.
Clearly, it's semantics are unexpected, though. I guess I should go hang
a bug on it.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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