[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (MQTT-13) Topic name has an upper length limit of 32,767 characters ?

Topic name has an upper length limit of 32,767 characters ?
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                 Key: MQTT-13
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/MQTT-13
             Project: OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) TC
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 3.1.1
            Reporter: Rahul Gupta


Snippet from Section 2.2 of  v3.1 specification. 
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The topic name is a UTF-encoded string. See the section on MQTT and UTF-8 for more information. Topic name has an upper length limit of 32,767 characters.

Snippet in Appendix A - 
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The following principles apply to the construction and content of a topic tree:
> The length is limited to 64k but within that there are no limits to the number of
levels in a topic tree.

Should the topic length on PUBLISH command be restricted to 32,767 characters ?

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