Re: Dnsdir last call review of draft-ietf-httpbis-alias-proxy-status-05

Hopefully not too late to bring this up, and it's really just a nit...

At the end of Section 2.1 in
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-alias-proxy-status-05.html,
there is this:

It is also possible for a DNS name to include a period character (".")
within a label, instead of as a label separator. In this case, the period
character MUST be first escaped as "\.". Since the "\" character itself
will be percent-encoded, the name "dot\.label.example.com" would be encoded
within a next-hop-aliases parameter as follows:

Proxy-Status: proxy.example.net; next-hop="2001:db8::1";

    next-hop-aliases="dot%5C.label.example.com,service1.example.com"

Upon parsing this name, "dot%5C.label" MUST be treated as a single label.

Similarly the "\" character in a label MUST be escaped as "\\". Other uses
of "\" MUST NOT appear in the label after percent-decoding.

<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-alias-proxy-status-05.html#section-2.1-4>
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-alias-proxy-status-05.html#section-2.1-5>

<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-alias-proxy-status-05.html#section-2.1-6>

Can that last line be expounded on and clarified? Will a "\" character in a
label be 'eventually' encoded as "\\" or "%5C%5C" or some combination of
them?

Rory

Received on Monday, 16 October 2023 17:50:30 UTC