On 26 Feb, 2014, at 06:34, Joe Abley <[email protected]> wrote: > I still don’t see why we need a TLD, or a delegation/reservation under ARPA. > > There are many, many TLDs under which an application/protocol implementer can > reserve some namespace for their exclusive use at low cost ($10/year, say). > Why is this approach not preferred for a new application/protocol? It seems > far simpler.
The issue is home gateway vendors who want to sell a $49 home gateway that “just works”, out of the box, without the customer having to go though some confusing registration process (that also costs them $10/year, say) to use that home gateway product in their own home. Such products ship today with “.home” hard-coded into them, and all our pontificating about registration processes is not going to change that. Stuart Cheshire _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
