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 > > -- > Andrew Sullivan > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
