perhaps it would be easier/better to pick a name from the "reserved names" at the ICANN/IANA which cannot otherwise be used anyway?...
e.g. 2 character non-countrycodes: QM QN QO QP QQ QR QS QT QU QV QW QX QY QZ XA XB XC XD XE XF XG XH XI XJ XK XL XM XN XO XP XQ XR XS XT XU XV XW XX XY XZ The above are considered "User-assigned: free for assignment at the disposal of users" in the ISO3166 standard but are still reserved by ICANN/IANA not to be used anyway. Another option would be to add "-" or a digit to avoid collision, since those are also not currently accepted in ICANN TLDs. e.g. .H1 , .h-h Just some thoughts... rather than using an alphabetic "word" Edmon > -----Original Message----- > From: homenet [mailto:homenet-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Juliusz > Chroboczek > Sent: Friday, 17 June 2016 07:13 AM > To: Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> > Cc: HOMENET <homenet@ietf.org> > Subject: Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home > > > Where THING is the local translation of "home". > > Let us please not open this particular can of worms: > > - how does software running on my laptop, which just connected to an > unknown network, find out what is the local translation of "home"? > > - how does a user, even one who knows the local language, find out which > of the possible translations of "home" is the right one? (What should > it be for Greek? oikos? opiti? You are allowed to consult speakers > of Greek, but you must get them to reach consensus before the end of > the week.) > > - how do I type οίκος on my French keyboard? > > There's some precedent for this kind of problems -- Outlook used to > (incorrectly) internationalise the prefix "Re:" in e-mail replies. Since > software > couldn't be expected to know all of the Microsoftese for "Re", you'd end up > with > subject lines such as "Re: Rép: Antw: Odp: ...". > (Re, of course, is Latin for "about such thing", not the abbreviation of > "reply".) > > (The right choice for Homenet, of course, is ".domus". Although, now that I > think > about it, RFC 1034 doesn't mention whether domain names are in the nominative > or > the locative, so perhaps we should also consider ".domo".) > > -- Juliusz > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
