On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:58:38PM -0800, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote a message of 36 lines which said:
> Title : The ALT Special Use Top Level Domain > Authors : Warren Kumari > Andrew Sullivan > Filename : draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld-00.txt The goal is laudable and I like the end of section 3, acknoweledging that, existing TLDs like .onion won't move to the new .ALT However, I disagree with the terminology. > DNS context: The namespace administered by ICANN. No. The DNS is a protocol. It exists whether or not it is rooted at ICANN. When you use an "alternative root" (RFC 2826), you use the DNS. When a big closed organization has its own infrastructure, with root servers and so on, it is still the same DNS protocol. > the DNS "standard" of a series of labels separated with dots Many other systems work with this syntax (domain names can be resolved by other protocols than the DNS, for instance /etc/hosts or LDAP) so it should not be called "DNS standard". _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
