> On 29 Mar 2016, at 15:46, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fully agree. That's why, when thinking about .alt, we need to consider two > different cases: > - Add .alt to the 6761 registry > - Add .alt to the 6761 registry and close the registry > To me, the second gives a much clearer picture to both the IETF community > about what they will be expected to do in the future, and to the developers > who want new outside-the-DNS name switches.
I agree. Though I’m struggling to understand how reserving .alt (or some other string) will actually help. Naive or less-than-well-intentioned protocol developers will just pluck TLD strings out of the ether and that’ll bring us right back to where we started when this .onion thing erupted. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
