On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:10:06PM +0700,
 Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 37 lines which said:

>       Now, however, I see that there're at least /two/ flavors of
>       TLD's as employed by P2P networks.  More widespread are
>       "pseudo" TLD's, which aren't intended to map DNS names to one
>       or more conventional DNS resource records.

These are very good candidate for the "special names" registry I was
mentioning. This registry is for TLD where the _implementation_ has to
do something special (for ".local", for instance, using Apple mDNS and
not DNS to resolve the names).

>       The other TLD's allow for conventional DNS zones, although
>       without the usual delegation rules inherent to the DNS design.
>       Such is the GNUnet's user-managed .gnunet hierarchy, as well
>       as the soon to be standardized mDNS' .local, and perhaps
>       other.

I am not sure this distinction is the right one. mDNS certainly does
not use "conventional DNS zones" (it is named DNS by Apple but it is
not DNS). I fail to see the difference between gandalf.local (resolved
with mDNS) and
1f5eeb0a33c4468149ea8c897b86366215037dd76997f290609369a721161db5.keys
where 1f5eeb0a33c4468149ea8c897b86366215037dd76997f290609369a721161db5
is a crypto digest resolved in a DHT.
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