Re: Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-alias-proxy-status-05: (with COMMENT)

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the review. I’ve added clarity and example for “\\” with this PR: https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/pull/2666

Best,
Tommy

> On Oct 24, 2023, at 5:49 AM, Robert Wilton via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
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> draft-ietf-httpbis-alias-proxy-status-05: No Objection
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> Thanks for this document.  From an RFC series perspective, I wonder whether
> this wouldn't have been better to put into a bis of RFC 9209 rather than a
> standalone RFC ... but I'm not suggesting that you change this now.
> 
> One minor comment:
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> (1) p 4, sec 2.1.  Encoding special characters
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>   Upon parsing this name, "dot%5C.label" MUST be treated as a single
>   label.
>   Similarly the "\" character in a label MUST be escaped as "\\".
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> I think that this is probably obvious, but possibly could state 'escaped as
> "\\" and then percent-encoded'.
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> Regards,
> Rob
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