Which brings up a question can a TLD be used like a domain name? not just http://microsoft/ but [EMAIL PROTECTED] will likely to fail to.
james 2008/7/2 Hallam-Baker, Phillip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Another like restriction that might be investigated is whether > http://microsoft/ or other similar corporate TLDs would work as intended > with deployed legacy browsers. > > I suspect (but have not tried) that if you simply type 'Microsoft' into the > address bar of some browsers you might have the keyword immediately > interpreted as a search term, not an address to visit. > > > I also suspect that if we actually read the technical specs being proposed > we might find that some of these issues have already been anticipated in > them and addressed. > > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Crocker > Sent: Tue 7/1/2008 12:44 PM > To: Tony Finch > Cc: IETF Discussion > Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ? > > > > Tony Finch wrote: >>>> Speaking technically, how would you distinguish the top-level domain >>>> "127.0.0.1" from the IP address 127.0.0.1? >>> A word while passing here: is there a document (RFC, Posix standard, >>> whatever) which says which is the right result in such a case? >> >> RFC 1123 section 2.1, especially the last sentence. > > Interesting. > > I hadn't noticed the implication of that, before, but it seems to be a > pretty > clear technical specification that a top-level domain is not allowed to be a > decimal number. Ever. > > That's a concrete constraint on what ICANN is permitted to authorize. > > d/ > -- > > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
