On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 4:21 AM Tony Finch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Brian Dickson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I think it might be good to scope the 6761 issue, with something like the
> > following:
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > > I.e. it is necessary to recognize all special use names, and necessary
> to
> > > not resolve such names via DNS.
>
> That's going too far: special-use domain names must have specific
> instructions to application authors, which might say not to use the
> DNS or might say to use the DNS as usual.
>

Hi, Tony,
You are, of course, right. I think what I meant was, for the specific case
of .onion, (what I said),
and for the general case, (what you said). I.e. wherever an RFC for
specific special use name exists,
as linked by the IANA registry, those particular instructions MUST be
followed, especially if not following
those rules might/would break things (like the case of .onion vs DNS).

Brian



> David Schinazi's comment on the GitHub issue about referring to the IANA
> registry is good, and perhaps more useful than referring to RFCs directly.
>
> Tony.
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