RFC 4282:The Network Access Identifier
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ASCII character


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... RFC4013]). x = %x00-FF ; all 128 ASCII characters, no exception; ; as well as all UTF-8-octets as defined ...
... IDN-unaware domain name slot" as defined in [RFC3490]. That is, it can contain only ASCII characters. An implementation MAY support Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs ...



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