Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

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Oops, ignore my email :P My reading comprehension is bad in the morning.

-James Seng

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:31 AM, James Seng <james@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> RFC 4282 defined
>
>   label       =  let-dig *(ldh-str)
>
> which means a single-label Unicode string would be absolutely fine
> since it translate to xn--gibberish. A shorter gibberish of cos, but
> still longer than a single character.
>
> -James Seng
>
>> Potential problems with global use of single-label names go beyond SMTP.
>> For example,  RFC 4282, which defines the Network Access Identifier
>> (NAI), does not permit the use of single-label names. From Section 2.1:
>>
>>    realm       =  1*( label "." ) label
>>
>> As a result, someone purchasing the "example" TLD and using the NAI
>> bob@example in order to obtain access to the network, might well
>> discover that this would not work.
>>
>>
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