John C Klensin wrote:
> On that basis, my inclination would be to: > > * continue to prohibit leading (or trailing) hyphens agree > * continue to prohibit all spacing characters > > * continue to prohibit all punctuation characters except > for that hyphen and the label-separating period (full > stop, ".") ASCII versions of these are already prohibited by nameprep. Look-alikes from other ranges should be prohibited to eliminate security problems which would arise from purposefully misleading domain names. > * prohibit, in the spirit of the hostname rules, all > symbol and drawing characters I'm completely neutral on this range but your arguments make sense. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
