On Jan 21, 2013, at 6:45 AM, Jothan Frakes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> Perhaps my suggestion was better for off-list, and I certainly don't know if 
> it would be the magic solution for .cw, but it certainly could not hurt them 
> to submit their entry to the PSL.  I do hope it contributes to the solution 
> for them.
> 
> The PSL is something that the application development community uses to 
> enhance the IANA list for a variety of uses, typically for understanding what 
> might be valid on the rightmost side of addresses.  


Yup, the PSL is used by a number of browser manufacturers to scope cookies...

>   Many app developers don't closely watch the IANA root list, and want to 
> know how to have a more elegant understanding and handling of the right hand 
> side of addresses that are parsed, going deeper than just the TLD itself.

Yes -- the IANA root list (unfortunately) simply doesn't contain the 
information needed to correctly determine where a cookie can be set. The PSL 
helps prevent a cookie being set at e.g: .co.uk.

W

> 
> I don't have an opinion on if it is right or wrong, but it has been around 
> for some time, and a few years back I saw it was out of synch with the TLD 
> community and have put a lot of volunteer time into trying to correct that.  
> I am on temporary hiatus, but when not on exclusive projects, I volunteer 
> time and experience to the initiative as it needs tighter nexus with the DNS 
> community.  Many of you have perhaps seen me presenting it at ICANN meetings 
> within the CCNSO tech day or other forums to help elevate awareness in the 
> past few years.  
> 
> The hope and purpose is to bridge the application development world so as to 
> increase better sophistication for developers about TLDs and reduce legacy 
> problems like simple TLD tests (ie >3 chars = invalid which broke forms or 
> other functionality for info, museum, aero, mobi, travel etc. as they 
> launched) .
> 
> It is a central system managed by the community, kept up to date by 
> volunteers, and used by numerous software developers, programming languages, 
> browsers (cookies), search engines, security software, and many other places.
> 
> Hopefully it helps .cw as they launch, which was my initial purpose in 
> response.
> 
> Definitely worth folks on this list being aware of it.  Being able to 
> positively impact how your zone operates within the application development 
> community is a valuable resource.
> 
> -J
> 
> Jothan Frakes
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 09:25:03AM +0100,
>  Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote
>  a message of 21 lines which said:
> 
> > A "suffix" is any string ending a domain name.
> 
> A reader even more nazi than I am suggested a definition closer to the
> DNS semantics:
> 
> A suffix is any sequence of labels ending a domain name.
> 
> 
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