Comment 3 for bug 1500945

I fully agree that escaping would be preferable. But I am a little concerned about this snippet from RFC 7055:

"This escaping mechanism is a property of the string representation; if the components of a name are transported in some mechanism that will keep them separate without backslash escaping, then backslash SHOULD have no special meaning."

As I read it, this means that backslash escaping would probably be a bug when it's not absolutely required. Can we be sure that it will ALWAYS be absolutely required -- i.e., that we will ALWAYS be using a transport mechanism that will NOT isolate the components of the name?