Ordinary humans see names all the time. See section 2.1 of the homenet naming architecture; if you disagree with the reasoning there, please suggest text! :)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lemon-homenet-naming-architecture-00#section-2.1 On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 07:53:42PM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote: > > >.local has worked > > But mostly because ordinary humans never see it. That's what's not > clear to me. > > Is this a name that will mostly be hidden by user-interface sugar > (which is mostly how it works with mDNS -- please don't tell me about > ssh. That's not our audience, I maintain)? If so, then any domain > will do, and putting it under arpa would be fine. > > Is it a name that we expect people often to use in you-type-it-in > contexts? If so, then the story is very different. > > In any case, I'd really like "translation" to be off the table. We > are not competent to do that, and anyway we're specifying a permanent > part of infrastructure that will not be able to evolve as (say) > language evolves. > > Best regards, > > A > > -- > Andrew Sullivan > a...@anvilwalrusden.com > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet >
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