On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 06:20:36PM -0400,
 Suzanne Woolf <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 218 lines which said:

> It's been surmised now for years that ".home" is widely used in
> local DNS configurations, based on the so-called "name collision"
> work commissioned by ICANN, and it's hard to see how collisions
> between overlapping local uses of the same names is preferable in
> any way to collisions between the global default namespace and local
> uses.

It's not hard: privacy issues (leaks in the wild DNS) do not occur
when there are conflicts between local uses. Also, local conflicts are
easier to detect and debug.

> Name collisions within one local scope, or multiple overlapping
> local scopes, seem to me to be dangerous in exactly the same ways as
> ambiguity between the "public namespace" and a local one would be.

No.

> Using ".home" for homenets is a bad idea, and would have been a bad
> idea even if there was a special use registry entry for it.

And, anyway, I cannot blame the homenet people for having "registered"
.home surreptitiously because there is no other open way to do it
"properly".

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