[80900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Wed May 18 06:48:49 2005
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:46:32 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0505181105170.26689@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +0100,
Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote
a message of 12 lines which said:
> However case insensitivity puts a big spanner in the works.
And the fact that you can use any 8-bits character in a domain name
but nothing says what the encoding is. UTF-8 ? Latin-1 ? Big5 ? (Some
unscrupulous vendors promoted "international domain names" using that
trick.)
Hence the RFC 3490.
