On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:46:35 PDT, Pete Resnick said:
Right now, control characters are allowed in the following:
- Domain literals on the right hand side of addresses
Are there corresponding RFCs in the pipe that will allow actually doing an MX
lookup of such beasts? Or ways to use them in a mailto: URI? Or all the *other*
myriad ways that people actually *expect* the right hand side of an address to
work? (Including the "internationalized domain names" effort now underway?)
Otherwise...
Judith: [on Stan's desire to be a mother] Here! I've got an idea: Suppose you
agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb - which is
nobody's fault, not even the Romans' - but that he can have the *right*
to have babies.
Francis: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to
have babies, brother... sister, sorry.
Reg: What's the *point*?
Francis: What?
Reg: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies, when he can't
have babies?
Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg: It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.
(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
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