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From: John C Klensin <klensin@mci.net>
Subject: Re: starting characters in domain names
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At 15:52 97.03.12 -0500, Jack De Winter wrote:
>Now... as I recall, both of the specs 821/822 in the original
>version state that any domain name must begin with a letter, and
>I cannot find anything to the contrary in my current copy of
>the 821bis/822bis specs.  Is this proper?

See 1123.  I think both Pete and I have been trying to follow a "say as
little as possible about the form of domain names and leave it to the DNS
spec" policy, although I, at least, could be talked out of it.

    john