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> On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 06:43:09 PM -0500 The IESG
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > The IESG has received a request from the DNS Extensions WG to consider
> > the following document:
> >
> > - 'Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification '
> > <draft-ietf-dnsext-insensitive-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard
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> The document in question states:
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> One typographic convention for octets that do not correspond to an
> ASCII printing graphic is to use a back-slash followed by the value
> of the octet as an unsigned integer represented by exactly three
> decimal digits.
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> While this is literally true, the _common_ convention is to use a backslash
> followed by the value of the octet as an unsigned integer represented by
> exactly three _octal_ digits. This is the syntax used by programming
> languages like C and perl. For example, ASCII ESC (0x1b) is represented as
> \033, not \027.
The C convention also has \t, \r, \f, \n none of which are
the special in domain labels.
We are not trying to change conventions here. It is irrelevent
that C has a different convention.
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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