ben wrote:
> It was first brought up by Eric H in this thread who said, " U+002E > (FULL STOP) is ONLY valid for use as a separator when the IHI is > written out". I thought it will be a good time to draw the same > attention to the "Chinese Full Stop" for this WG to consider. DNS doesn't store the separator. The only place the separator appears is in domain names that are written-out and stored in data streams. And since the separators are not encapsulated in the labels (they are separators not data), they are not subject to encoding, and therefore would always appear between encoded labels (including ACE labels). So really you are asking about domain names as they appear in protocol and/or application data. You would have to update every protocol and application that processes domain names in order for Chinese Full Stop to be usable as a label separator everywhere that a domain name was encoded or encapsulated. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
