NFD » NDN Specifications

Canonical Order section states:

each NameComponent is a sequence of zero or more 8-bit bytes

This conflicts with Name Format section:

  NameComponent ::= NAME-COMPONENT-TYPE TLV-LENGTH BYTE+

Also, the following sentence in Name Format section seems to suggest a NameComponent can be empty:

There is no restriction on the Value field in a name component and it may not contain any bytes