Bug#949467: ITP: ocaml-domain-name -- RFC 1035 Internet domain names
That sounds very good description to me. Thanks.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
> On 21 Jan 2020, at 09:41, Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Le 21/01/2020 à 09:11, Ondřej Surý a écrit :
>>> A domain name is a sequence of labels separated by dots, such as
>>> foo.example. Each label may contain any bytes. The length of each
>>> label may not exceed 63 charactes. The total length of a domain name
>>> is limited to 253 (byte representation is 255), but other protocols
>>> (such as SMTP) may apply even smaller limits. A domain name label is
>>> case preserving, comparison is done in a case insensitive manner.
>>
>> that is extremely bad package description, it describes domain name,
>> and not what the package does and why it’s useful.
>
> You are right. What about the following?
>
> This module provides an abstract type for domain names, as defined by
> RFC 1035. It provides useful functions that operate on domain names
> while guaranteeing invariants such as the length limit.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Stéphane
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