God.   You're right.   I'm old.

Sigh.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:56:30PM +0900, Ted Lemon wrote:
>> securely-delegated TLD that is _not_ .arpa for stuff like this.   I
>> think the point raised about .arpa is unfortunately somewhat
>> legitimate.
>
> Which point?  That it is mysterious to users?  That doesn't seem like
> a powerful one to me, since "homenet" is also meaningless, also not a
> thing anyone configured, and completely unintuitive to anyone whose
> first language isn't Geek English.
>
> That it might be confused with the Advanced Defence Projects Agency?
> My Google search just now gave me Alberta Recreation and Parks
> Association, ARPA Canada (which appears to be some Christian-values
> association), and then the Wikipedia entry for .arpa, which stands for
> Address and Routing Parameter Area (and has done since at least 2001
> and RFC 3172).  The next entry is a disambiguation of ARPA from
> Wikipedia.  Then Automatic Radar Plotting Aid.  Adcanced Defence
> Projects Agency doesn't appear, presumably because it has been named
> DARPA since 1972.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
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