Date: 2005-02-02 15:15
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>
Because some incompatible changes were made in the ASCII
definition in the early 70s that would have fouled up the
"network virtual terminal" character set.
OK, but I doubt that that would affect the case-insensitivity
issue that is the subject of the draft. In any event, on
reviewing the one citation in the text to that reference, I
see that it's a chronological reference rather than substantive.
The first DNS RFCs were RFCs 881-883, ca. 1983, so it's a bit
misleading to point to a document which was at that time a
decade and a half old, and by which time changes made in the
early 70's were a decade old. Not a big issue in any event.
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