It appears that Peter Thomassen <[email protected]> said: >I am proposing to reserve all top-level underscore labels (_*) for special >use. Why?
While I don't think that reserving underscore names will break anything that is not already broken, I also don't see what problem it solves. Everything you say about *.alt is true, and most people who squat on random top level hostnames will continue to do so. But there is a great deal of software that expects the names it uses to look like hostnames, and won't work with anything else. The argument for *.alt is that if ICANN sells another round of vanity TLDs, as seems depressingly likely, here's a hostname we promise won't have new name collisions. Since it is hard to imagine ever adding a name that isn't a hostname to the public root, all of the _names are in practice reserved anyway. But I don't recall ever seeing anyone squatting on a name that isn't a hostname. This should give us a hint. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
