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. > > > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations > dns-jobs mailing list > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs > > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations > dns-jobs mailing list > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs -- The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters) _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
