In what way is a non-public TLD dangerous? BTW, the standard for that is to use .local rather than .foo.
-wes On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Someone <[email protected]> wrote: > There seem be three options roughly: > > 1) Use .foo TLD which isn't used on the Internet ( dangerous ). > > 2) Use globally registered domain name ( wasteful ). > > 3) Use a subdomain of a globally registered domain name ( limiting ). > > Option 1 is dangerous but desireable, because it involves less typing > than say option 3 and isn't wasteful the way option 2 is. > > I have another idea of how this can be solved: > > Image this: > > http://local:www.ivorysoap.org > > or: > > http://Internet:www.ivorysoap.org > > or: > > http://www.ivorysoap.org > > or: > > http://NetJapan:www.ivorysoap.org > > or: > > http://NetUS:www.ivorysoap.org > > or ... > > ----------------------------------------- > > Explanation: > > The first one means this is a name of a private host on a private > network that may or may not access the Internet. > > The second is an alternative to the third for people who > want to be explicit. > > The third is anywhere on the Internet go to http://www.ivorysoap.org > and this is in use today. > > The fourth, NetJapan, means on the Internet in Japan. > > The fifth, NetUS, means on the Internet in the United States naturally. > > I'm thinking that the geographic location indicator should be 8 > characters max. Nobody can register local, private, or reserved. > > To ease the usage of this system, new versions of the popular web > browsers can query what the global identifiers are and let you select > the one you mean from a short list. > > The advantage is, name repeats become possible and what can be used > inside a private network to name the machines opens up. > > With 8 characters and 26*2 possible choices for each character, that > comes out to 52^8 ( a lot of possible strings ). Some number of these > strings should be discarded as nonsense. Discarding case, about 20 > billion possible strings. > > I don't foresee people typing these geographic labels in. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
