Re: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top LevelDomain meeting

[Mark.Andrews@nominum.com]

> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 Mark.Andrews@nominum.com wrote:
> 
> > 	    Telnet uses host names.
> > 	    Email uses host names or mail domains (these should both be
> > 	    syntactically identical).
> > 	    HTTP uses host names.
> > 	    Traceroute uses host names.
> > 	    hosts.equiv uses host names.
> > 	    host.allow/host.deny uses host names.
> > 
> > 	Personally I would like to see a similar distinction with IDNS.
> > 	i.e. any character in a international domain name, a very
> > 	restricted character set(s) in a international host name.
> 
>   I must confess that I am quite new to this mailing list.
> If my question is silly, please forgive me.
> 
>   The above list shows that most major applications use host names.
> Then, in what applications, can/do we use domain names?

	Windows 2000 makes extensive use of domains that are not
	host names. 

	Hesoid makes use of domains that are not host names.

	Mark
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