Re: domain literals

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Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> > Please add also the a:%{h} cases after "HELO museum" or "HELO museum."
> > (of course s/museum/test/ or similar, for a match of its IP), it's not
> > the same as "oemcomputer".
>
> The correct result is not at all clear in this case.  4.8/1 says the
> result of macro expansion for a domain-spec is a FQDN.  It does not
> specify what to do when the expansion is, in fact, *not* a FQDN.
>
> Choices offered so far:
>
> a) treat as a TLD  (Frank Ellerman)
> b) don't match
> c) permerror       (rejected after discussion)
>
> The test suite does not currently distinguish between a and b, but it
> does check to make sure it does not permerror.

It's obviously unspecified (as unfortunate as it may be), so the test suite 
should not require any specific behavior.  However, I agree that PermError 
should not be thrown because the spec doesn't say "MUST be an FQDN" or 
anything to that effect.

IOW, I agree with the current state of the test suite in this regard.

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