On 20/07/16 11:10, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
- why do you need a word from natural language?
We want something short and memorable. ".home" is short and memorable.
".in-addr.arpa" is not.
"Something short and memorable" is again a requirement here that isn't
obviously imposed by RFC 7368. But worse, "home" is actually only
memorable for people who know what that word is in English, and it's
only even useful to people who use Latin characters.
Speaking as a residential gateway (stack) vendor who has deployed close
to 20 million units in (at my last count) 15 countries across Europe,
the Middle East and Africa, none of them English speaking, primarily in
France which is very protective of its language, I would say that that
is a non-issue. The DNS lingua franca started with Latin for .edu, .com,
.mil, .org, and moved to English with the likes of .net, .biz and most
gTLD's. There is a global acceptance that English and the Latin
character set are used for some things on the Internet, and everyone can
input left-to-right, Latin character strings on their keyboards. Nobody
is calling for translations of "http" or "www", to my knowledge.
"Short and memorably" seems like an obvious goal to me. .home fits this,
and is a well known word among non-English speakers. Even
extraterrestrials point at the night sky and request to "phone home."
A notable exception is Deutsche Telekom whose gateways use ".lan". Which
is an English acronym.
bfn, Wouter
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