- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:44:48 -0800
- To: uri@w3.org
- Cc: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
>> I appreciate this is not strictly correct, but I see no practical >> harm from defining the syntax in this way and asserting the form of >> the final domain label as an extra-syntactic constraint. A (limited) >> few tests with my browser suggest that it does not syntactically >> prohibit numeric top-level domain labels, but simply reports that the >> domain cannot be found. > > Doing that would cause the syntax to be ambiguous in regards to IPv4 > addresses, which is why that syntax was added to the specification > in the first place. The reason that literal IP addresses are > explicitly > denoted is because applications are encouraged to convert them > directly to numeric IP rather than send everything to a DNS resolver. Never mind, it was already ambiguous. *sigh* ....Roy
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