Dear colleagues,
On 6 Sep 2024, at 10:34, Pavel Kácha via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 01:53:42PM -0700, Leo Vegoda wrote:
If there are good operational reasons for being more restrictive than is allowed for in RFC 5341 then we should not disregard those reasons for the sake of strict compliance with a very generous standard.
And are there any good operational reasons?
As long as I strongly don't appreciate Dan's style of communication, I tend to agree with the merit here. Call me biased, but I've already met too much of "your email is too long", "too short", "contains too many dots", "contains plus sign" meaning "give us email we like or go away".
RFCs are not a law, but they're here for a reason.
-- Pavel (ph)
Thanks very much all for your feedback, and Daniel for your suggestion. I don't see any replies that are in strong opposition, so we will extend the email address length to comply with the RFC. We will also review the rest of the DB schema (now over 20 years old) in case there are any other limits that should be updated: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/whois/blob/master/whois-commons/src/main/resourc... Regards Ed Shryane RIPE NCC