[149717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Feb 13 00:52:10 2012
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:51:21 -0800
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbW_tCpq9ejiXPkZjUi3f-d5Jfe9wzEriwFQeZ_YHaRpmg@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 itself is purely eight bit transparent. =A0one can even have a dot as
>> a non-separator. =A0p.r.c could be a tld. =A0it's strictly length/value.
> That's true, but there is no standard character representation for
> octet values 128 - 255.
utf-8 is the one used in the ietf community.
> Only octets in the range from 65 to 90 (uppercase) and 977 to 122
> (lowercase) have a case equivalent for DNS resolution.
dns resolution is eight bit clear.
randy