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To: Eric Thomas <ERIC%SEARN.SUNET.SE@princeton.edu>
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Subject: Re: getting started 
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Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 19:37:28 -0400
From: Ed Levinson <xison@cnj.digex.net>

Eric,

Your note to the drums list piqued my interest, especially about the
inconsistent naming issues.  Can you provide more detail, where to
look in the various RFCs?  I'd like to add this information to some
work I'm doing on addressing.

Thanks.../Ed

> One feature that  I think needs to  be clarified in both 821  and 822 (et
> seq) is whether underscore and leading numbers are accepted in hostnames.
> 
> Right now we have a nice  mess where 822 allows underscores, 821 doesn't,
> and neither  does the DNS,  but then bind does  and so does  sendmail, ...
> 
> For leading numeric characters we  have another mess where the (modified)
> DNS standards allow  it, but 821 doesn't. ...