On Nov 28, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Lee Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Without explicit caution, the CPE might populate .local for FQDN.  Yes, I
> assumed that
> everyone knew that residential users rarely have their own domain name, and
> would have
> to get it from their ISP.  I don't think ISPs especially want to provide
> this--there's no gain
> and lots of potential pain.

I think that there's minimal potential pain if it's done right, and it's 
something they could charge extra for, but that's pretty much the only scenario 
in which I expect ISPs to do this.   OTOH, it seems like a pretty obvious 
market for a third party.

> We might want to check with some ISPs and see if they would be interested in
> consuming
> such a spec.  I doubt many would--it's something to troubleshoot that offers
> little value to
> the residential user. 

Actually I'd have to disagree with this.   It offers significant value to the 
residential user in that their site can now have a globally-unique name, which 
is a problem we've discussed at some length in homenet, and which remains an 
unsolved problem.

> Then it would be healthy for us to collaborate!  Maybe we can drive
> compromise
> positions before making the WG(s) thrash.

Sure!   :)

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