On Monday, March 30, 2020 7:21:18 PM EDT John R Levine wrote:
> > Does someone have a fix in mind that could be submitted as an erratum? 
> > The
> > intent was indeed to make the authserv-id either a plain old ASCII domain
> > name or an A-label which doesn't need quoting.  I missed that RFC 6532
> > didn't update "value", unfortunately.
> 
> Unfortunately, 8601's defintion is a mess.  At the bottom of page 15 it
> says this about authserv-id, which contradicts the ABNF:
> 
>     Note that in an EAI-formatted message, this identifier may be
>     expressed in UTF-8.
> 
> If you want it to be a domain, the ABNF should say:
> 
>       authserv-id = domain-name
> 
> The text below says domain-name is imported from RFC 6376, which I presume
> includes the updates from RFC 8616 that encourage U-labels in EAI
> messages.
> 
> This is not strictly backward compatible with the current text, but I
> don't think I've ever seen an authserv-id which wasn't syntactically a
> domain name.

I've seen bare host names used.  I guess that's syntactically a domain name 
also, but might not be what you expect if you assume it's really a domain 
name.  It probably doesn't matter.

Scott K


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