Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 01:46:38PM +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 22. 07. 20 13:00, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
>> > Tom,
>> >
>> > my understanding is that Lada is now proposing something slightly
>> > different but I am not sure what exactly, hence I asked again.
>>
>> Oh yes, I messed it up by mixing different things together, sorry. I
>> checked again the ML archive, and the message that is relevant to this
>> thread is this:
>>
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/netmod/PISOifrtow4oWLGW7meBBSri7nM/
>>
>> The aim of that proposal was to limit the "inet:host" type to DNS names
>> that are reasonable as host names, i.e. eliminate values like "." or "_".
>
> You are proposing to change the length restriction from 1..253 to
> 2..253 following RFC 952:
>
> [...] Single character names
> or nicknames are not allowed.
>
> And you add
>
> pattern '(.*\.)?..\-\-.*' {
> modifier invert-match;
> }
>
> to restrict things to non-reserved letter-digit-hyphen labels as per
> RFC 5890. Is it clear that this second restriction applies to host
> names? How do you represent internationalized host names? Perhaps we
> need a collection of examples? And is the pattern correct? RFC 5890
> says:
>
> Reserved LDH labels, known as "tagged domain names" in some other
> contexts, have the property that they contain "--" in the third and
> fourth characters but which otherwise conform to LDH label rules.
>
> What is the '(.*\.)?' part doing in your pattern?
>
> Finally, would it be useful to derive a host-name type from the
> domain-name type (if host-names are really a strict subset of what
> domain-name allows), e.g.:
The current definition of "inet:domain-name" in 6991bis also permits the
underscore character in labels, so it is not LDH.
Lada
>
> typedef host-name {
> type domain-name {
> pattern '(.*\.)?..\-\-.*' {
> modifier invert-match;
> }
> length "2..max";
> }
> description
> "Host names must be at least two characters long (see RFC 952)
> and they are restricted to non-reserved letter-digit-hyphen
> (NR-LDH) labels (see RFC ????).";
> reference
> "RFC 952: DoD Internet Host Table Specification
> RFC ????: ????";
> }
>
> /js
>
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