--On Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:30 +1100 Mark Andrews
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dotless hostnames are in the local namespace and can *never*
> be made to work *reliably* in a global context.
>
> Note the use of non-heirachical names is undoing the changes
> introduced by RFC 921 and will introduce problems RFC 921
> was trying to remove/prevent.
Yeah. Since I have not been able to find a single hint in
ICANN's new TLD plans that those TLDs would be restricted to
delegation-only uses, tell it to ICANN. Or tell it to whomever
is supposed to be supplying adult supervision to ICANN :-(
Not an SMTP problem. SMTP requires FQDNs, without exception,
and does not permit single-component ones.
john
