Re: #1132: Allowing IP addresses as path-identiites - Poll result

[Bill McQuillan <McQuilWP@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-09-14, Charles Lindsey wrote:

>>With that version of <label> there's still an unnecessary
>>ambiguity with <IPv4address>, it can be solved by <toplabel>:

> No, there is no need for that. Every <label> has to begin with ALPHA (and
> that was in RFC 1035), so if you see anything with just digits and "."s
> in it, it is either an <IPv4address> or it is a syntax error.

Actually RFC 1035 was superceded by RFC 1123 section 2.1 which states that
each label except the TLD may be all-numeric.

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Bill McQuillan <McQuilWP@xxxxxxxxx>