Sure. Sorry if that was a bit of a shocking comment--I just feel like we're at risk of backing off a cliff because we're looking in the wrong direction. Obviously we need to do something, but we have to be careful that we don't create collateral damage in the process.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Terry Manderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for clarifying what you meant Ted. > > Cheers > Terry > > > > On 18/07/2016, 11:44 PM, "Ted Lemon" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >The document as written causes some harm, but less harm than updating it. > > The text in the document as written as to how domain names are resolved > >is not very good, and really really needs to be clarified with a detailed > >document that explains > > how name resolution works on the homenet. > > > > > >But I think we all accept that there's going to have to be a special-use > >top-level name allocated. That name is either going to be '.home' or > >'.homenet' as far as I can tell. > > > > > >Andrew made a very good case for why it shouldn't be .home. I agree > >with him, but not strongly enough that I would kick up a fuss of the > >consensus was to allocate .home anyway. I also don't mind the > >two-stage process if IETF leadership is willing > > to do what I asked at the mic and actively keep the debate on track. > > > > > >But it's really a three-stage process: do the erratum as an update, then > >do the 6761 allocation of either .home or .homenet, then do the document > >that explains how it all works. We need step two to happen _soon_ or we > >are in trouble. Step 1 may be > > necessary and highly motivating because of the layer 9 problems that > >this mistake caused, but if we only do step 1 and then trail off on step > >2, the effect in the market is either going to be that everybody uses > >.home anyway, or else that everybody uses something > > different. Neither of these outcomes are good outcomes. > > >
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