Bug#105364: host name validation

[Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:45:14AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:41:11AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone point me to the latest host name specification?  If so, I'll be
> > happy to update the code to match.
> 
> RFC1035 describes the recommended format for DNS names, which should be a
> reasonable specification to follow.

Thanks for the reference.  It looks like this description therein
is equivalent to the one in RFC 608, modulo the size limit
(RFC 1035 => 63, RFC 608 => 48).  Is there a more recent
specification (or WIP) which incorporates non-ASCII characters?

Matt