On 16/11/2016 09:53, Margaret Cullen wrote:
>
> What is the reasoning for using .homenet as the Homenet Domain, instead of
> registering and using .home?
>
<chair hat partly on>
1. we cannot be sure that using .home is consistent with the
existing (ab)uses
[e.g. BT in the UK already have about 5M CPE devices deployed
that are not "Homenet" devices but do use ".home" as their
default domain name. We don't know how those would interact]
2. ICANN is in receipt of about a dozen applications for ".home",
and some of those applicants no doubt have deeper pockets than
the IETF does should they decide to litigate
NB: Whilst ICANN has previously said that they won't actually delegate
".home" to any of those applicatants because of the amount of existing
(ab)use of that name that's visible at the DNS root servers, they are
under pressure from the applicants collectively to reverse that position.
Ray
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