# > when did the ietf community start ruling by law rather than leading by
# > recommendations? can't we just say "any application or library which
# > does DNS lookups to translate presentation-layer endpoint identifiers
# > into network-layer endpoint identifiers should take care to avoid doing
# > DNS lookups for presentation-layer content which is syntactically valid
# > as an IPv4 or IPv6 host name"?
#
# Except that we've now created a class of names that are OK to register,
# and OK to populate in the DNS, but some applications will never be able
# to look up.... that's kind of bizarre.
then make a recommendation that IANA not allocate such names as toplevels?
(what people choose to do further down the tree is not up to us to
decide.)