8bit & i18n (was Re: ietf-nntp My notes ...)

[Brian Hernacki]

Anthony Talltree wrote:
> 
> While we're at it, should/can we address the issue of what is and isn't
> a valid newsgroup name?  I've seen newsgroups created with ' in their
> name, and Microsoft has ones with &.  Less critical are the use of
> non-lowercase & numeric components and their lengths.

A good start would be the specification in son-of-1036. It is pretty
precise and list some of the historical reasons for certain
limitations.  

http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/notes/son-of-rfc1036.txt

--brian