On 6/6/2003 3:52 PM Jim McAtee noted that:
> Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
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>>Is this not one of the more ridiculous things to come out of a registry
>>in the past few years or have I missed something?
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>>http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc13/msg00012.html
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> I can't even guess how many email address validators I've seen that reject
> anything but two and three letter TLDs. I'm not sure about pointing a
> figure at "ISPs" - a lot of short sighted developers, certainly.
That's what I thought. I wonder if there's any connection between this
pronouncement and the Wildcard DNS "experiments" that Neulevel was doing
with .biz as George pointed out.
Did anyone read the underlying RFC that they were using in support of
their claims? It was certainly a different shade of "the filtering
problem" than what their letter implied...
---rwr
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