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Author	loewis
Recipients	baikie, ezio.melotti, lemburg, loewis, vstinner
Date	2010-08-26.21:36:29
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Message-id	<4C76DE5B.1010607@v.loewis.de>
In-reply-to	<20100826180410.GB5719@dbwatson.ukfsn.org>

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> I don't see how a name resolution API returning non-ASCII bytes > would indicate an error. It's in violation of RFC 952 (slightly relaxed by RFC 1123). > But to be more explicit, that's like saying "if it hurts, get > your sysadmin to reconfigure the company network". Which I consider perfectly reasonable. The sysadmin should have known (and, in practice, always knows) not to do that in the first place (the larger the company, the more cautious the sysadmin).

> I don't see how a name resolution API returning non-ASCII bytes
> would indicate an error.

It's in violation of RFC 952 (slightly relaxed by RFC 1123).

> But to be more explicit, that's like saying "if it hurts, get
> your sysadmin to reconfigure the company network".

Which I consider perfectly reasonable. The sysadmin should have
known (and, in practice, *always* knows) not to do that in the first
place (the larger the company, the more cautious the sysadmin).

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-08-26 21:36:31	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, lemburg, vstinner, baikie, ezio.melotti
2010-08-26 21:36:29	loewis	link	issue9377 messages
2010-08-26 21:36:29	loewis	create