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(In reply to comment #61)
> Kaspar, why do you disallow a wildcard to be followed by
> additional characters in the leftmost component? That
> requirement is not in RFCs 2595 and 4513.
It is, actually: both allow it as "*the* left-most component/DNS label", which implies that it can neither be preceded nor followed by any additional characters.
The rules which I implemented don't follow slavishly the RFCs in any case - e.g., none of them requires the component with the wildcard character to be followed by two additional components. We arrived at this solution in earlier discussions (see comment 25, inter alia).