We were recently asked to comment on a suggested new internet standard proposed in a document with the intriguing title Let ‘localhost’ be localhost. At first glance, we assumed this would either be humorous, like the many internet RFCs dated 01 April, or benignly pedantic… …but we investigated anyway (pedantry may be unpopular, but that is often because it is righteously correct and annoyingly important).

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