Re: [wg-c] Consensus vote - "no" on procedural grounds

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 05:24 PM 12/11/1999 , bob broxton wrote:
>3.  This vote should not be taken until consideration has been given to
>the recent increase in the length of Domain names to 67 characters as
>the result of work done by the IETF.  This is a fairly significant move
>which has received little publicity.

I believe there is no such IETF work.  Domain name fields have always been 
legal up to 64 characters.

>       By this action the "shortage" of available domain names is
>somewhat mitigated - a tremendous benefit to those who have been shut

The shortage has nothing to do with the length of the field, bur rather the 
flatness of the tree.

d/

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