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Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs
From: Andrew Sullivan <asullivan () dyn com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:27:21 -0500
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 02:10:02PM -0800, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
just keep in mind that while "." ought to be a label separator, the utc's bidi algorithm allows the directionality of a label to "leak" across the "period" character, where it is not a terminal character.
Yes, this is true, although that's at yet another layer _above_ the DNS presentation layer. That is, the . we are talking about is in the DNS presentation layer, which ought only ever to contain A-labels (xn--somethinghere) and not U-labels. (Someone suggested to me that the motto for IDNA ought to be, "Insufficient complication can always be solved by another layer of misdirection.") A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn, Inc. asullivan () dyn com v: +1 603 663 0448
Current thread:
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs, (continued)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Mark Andrews (Feb 23)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Andrew Sullivan (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Joe Abley (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Joe Abley (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Joe Abley (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Andrew Sullivan (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Andrew Sullivan (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Barry Shein (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Cutler James R (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jimmy Hess (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Mark Andrews (Feb 23)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Andrew Sullivan (Feb 23)
- RE: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Keith Medcalf (Feb 23)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Mark Andrews (Feb 23)