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Tue Apr 2 00:56:56 UTC 2013
ASSUMPTIONS
1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when
they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See
RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for
background). ...
Clearly written to accommodate the state of the DNS at that time, and even
though the current DNS standards postdate RFC 952, 952 has not had to be
updated to cope. And from RFC 1123:
2.1 Host Names and Numbers
The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
[DNS:4]. One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
letter or a digit.
So what you want to define as the "real" standard takes all but one item
of its definition from RFC 952.
What's the point you're trying to make?
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Sam Wilson
Network Services Division, Computing Services
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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