[149715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Feb 13 00:37:51 2012
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:36:54 -0800
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUEaw7mviPrh2Tp4o_yaMWispg4_ZB_o9KAjgpyuvY0HA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> DNS is case-insensitive when you are talking about 7-bit ASCII
< pedantry >
dns itself is purely eight bit transparent. one can even have a dot as
a non-separator. p.r.c could be a tld. it's strictly length/value.
of course, everyone and their dog has placed restrictions on it for this
use or that.
randy
