What we need to do is defined U+3002 as a DNS label seperator *inadditional* to U+002E. We should also consider U+FF2E to be consistent.
-James Seng ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric A. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "liana Ye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 1:45 AM Subject: Re: [idn] proposed i18n naming rules > > 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/ >
