>_alt or even _ would be better labels for this purpose. Part of the >goal has been to make these strings usable in applications (in "domain >name slots", as 5890 calls them). Would "_" work? Would "_alt"? I >have doubts, but I thought I'd ask.
I don't think so. The URI definition in RFC 3986 says the host is a "reg-name" which refers to section 2.1 of RFC 1123 which says a hostname is letters, digits, and hyphens. So underscores won't work in names in web browsers which are, as far as I can tell, the main place people are likely to use these names-that-are-not-names. Nice thought, though. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
