Re: Upcoming new test-suite release

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Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > But what are the chances of an implementation throwing PermError on
> > "a:museum" but not on "a:museum."?
>
> This is a test suite.  Such considerations do not apply.

Oh, I think they do.  Maintainability and leanness do matter.  They're 
just not top priorities.

> Ideally, all bizarre wrong behaviour should be flagged.  In practice, we
> can't hit it all. But deliberately throwing out a case we actually
> thought of, just because we feel no one would make that mistake, is a
> silly mistake.  The very act of making *that* silly mistake will cause
> someone else to make the other mistake, via a quantum mechanical
> application of Murphy's Law.

I don't follow entirely ;-) ...

> I'll go ahead and add the trailing dot case, if you are *sure* that
> both should be permerror.  The inconsistency is very ugly, but I
> suppose it can't be helped.  At least these are corner cases.

... but I don't have a problem with adding it if others think it is 
useful.  Please do go ahead.  I am 100% certain that both "museum" and
"museum." are NOT valid <domain-spec>s per RFC 4408.

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