agreed. but a “reserved string” registry isn’t the way to do that… at least in a scaleable fashion.
manning [email protected] PO Box 12317 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 310.322.8102 On 2July2015Thursday, at 10:34, Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > manning wrote: >> ... STRONGLY suggests that “domain-looking-string” is , in fact, a >> host that is identified using the Internet DNS. > > i agree with this interpretation, which means, it's the spec itself > that's wrong, not hugo's interpretation of it. the internet people > didn't love .UUCP addresses either but that didn't stop them from working. > > what the internet should be doing is defining escape mechanisms for > non-internet systems, rather than saying "we are the only thing you can > use". > > -- > Paul Vixie > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
