Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Lee Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. It ought to be part of the basic package. (Like Demon Internet in the mid-1990s.) > > 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. If every site has a domain name then it becomes easy to support wide-area service discovery, so people can still make use of what they have at home when they are away. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
