[149720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Feb 13 01:22:39 2012
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:51:21 -0800."
<m2ipjbmgbq.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:21:02 +1100
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <m2ipjbmgbq.wl%randy@psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
> >> 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.
I challenge you to find a RFC that say it is UTF-8.
> > 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.
It may be 8 bit clear but only 0-127 have defined meaning.
128-255 may be UTF-8 but they could equally be ISO-LATIN-*.
> randy
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