Please take a look at the conversation Ian and I have been having in HARMONY-6248.
Unless anyone objects I'm inclined to agree with Ian and modify Harmony to accept DNSNames that start with a digit, unlike the RI which throws an exception. Comments welcome. Tim Ian Payton (JIRA) wrote: > Urgh. That's annoying. > > I have further RFC wordage to support the position, though. RFC1738 > (page 5, section 3.1, 'host' description) says: "Fully qualified domain > names take the form as described in Section 3.5 of RFC 1034 [13] and > Section 2.1 of RFC 1123 [5]: a sequence of domain labels separated by > ".", each domain label starting and ending with an alphanumerical > character and possibly also containing "-" characters." > > Getting an explicit clarification of RFC3280 and/or RFC1034 from the > ietf, and then getting Sun to update their implementation so the RI > behavior also allows leading digits... doesn't sound like fun.
