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". _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
