Re: host vs hostname (Was: CID: and MID: URL schemes)

On Thu, 02 Nov 1995 11:24:03 PST, Barton E. Schaefer said:
> No, but RFC1123 specifies in sections 2.1 and 5.2.17 that domain literals
> "whose content ... is a dotted-decimal host address" MUST be accepted by
> mailers as a valid host identifier.
And this wording implies that other domain literals are at the mailer's
discretion.  Note that it does *not* say that "mailers MAY NOT accept
domain literals whose content is NOT a dotted-decimal host address".

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Engineer
                                Virginia Tech