Hi Warren, On 23 Aug 2019, at 17:18, Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 2:29 PM John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So it would be helpful to know if you think the recommendations are in fact >>> reasonable. >> >> I think they're reasonable but I would more clearly distinguish cases >> by where the protocol switch is, where I think these are the >> interesting ones: >> >> 1. Names handled totally unlike the DNS with nothing like an IP address >> (.onion) >> >> 2. Names handled through mutant DNS which can returns IP addresses (.local, >> .localhost, .homenet/.home.arpa) >> >> 3. Names that have other problems such as conflicting prior use (.test, >> .example, .invalid, also .home, .belkin) >> >> For 1, we can reserve if if there's a compelling argument and evidence >> of clear use. This leads to a catch 22 where the only way to get the >> evidence is to squat on it, but I don't see any way around it. I >> particularly do not want to reserve names just because someone claims >> to have a great plan. I think this probably includes Warren's great >> plan for .alt. > > .... hey, that's my cue! I have never been very excited about your ALT proposal. However, I don't think it will do any harm beyond thwarting any secret plans anybody might have to apply for a string in a future round of gTLD applications that is ALT or is confusingly similar to it. I do have my doubts as to whether reservation of ALT as proposed will actually help with the problem it ostensibly seeks to solve. People have always been able to anchor their non-DNS naming schemes to domain names they control in the DNS as a way to avoid collisions, and nobody has seemed to think that's a good idea. Is it more likely that someone would anchor their ARTICHOKE alternative naming scheme under ARTICHOKE.ALT than it was for them to use (say) ARTICHOKE.NZ or ARTICHOKE.GLOBAL or something? Even within the IETF we struggled slightly to convince people to use HOME.ARPA instead of HOME, right? Q: has anybody ever indicated that they would use ALT to anchor a non-DNS but domain-like naming scheme? A: not so far as we know. However, I appreciate we can't tell whether it will solve any problem until we try it. I stand ready to eat some kind of at least passably-edible hat if called to do so five years from now. Joe
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