On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 06:43:09 PM -0500 The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The IESG has received a request from the DNS Extensions WG to consider the following document:
- 'Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification ' <draft-ietf-dnsext-insensitive-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard
The document in question states:
One typographic convention for octets that do not correspond to an ASCII printing graphic is to use a back-slash followed by the value of the octet as an unsigned integer represented by exactly three decimal digits.
While this is literally true, the _common_ convention is to use a backslash followed by the value of the octet as an unsigned integer represented by exactly three _octal_ digits. This is the syntax used by programming languages like C and perl. For example, ASCII ESC (0x1b) is represented as \033, not \027.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@xxxxxxx> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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