I haven't read the draft yet, but the discussion whether numeric
labels are allowed seems to get slightly out of hand.
Anybody can use them and apparently people are. That is easily
proved but running something like:
for i in `seq 1 1 1000`; do echo $i; dig +short $i.com; done
and replace .com with different TLDs such as .info, .biz, .pro,
.cn, .nl etc. as well. (Variations in the boundaries is also
advised so you can stumble on 4711 and similar trademarks).
Whatever the scriptures are saying or how they can be interpreted,
I haven't seen seen the network crashing down due to this practice.
That using multiple numeric domains can backfire and that if you
open a web-shop at the host named 127.0.0.1 might not result in a
stellar sized customer base is something completely different. You
just get what you ask for.
jaap
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