At 06:53 14-07-2013, Yoav Nir wrote:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-dotless-domains-00
That memo discusses about the case of the dotless domains in terms of
the technical standards. Comments are welcome.
At 13:11 13-07-2013, Ofer Inbar wrote:
What this brings to mind is that we used to have implicit DNS domain
search in the early days of DNS. When edu.com accidentally hijacked
a huge chunk of the Internet, most of the net very quickly got rid of
implicit search, and we got the explicit DNS search feature that many
people are discussing now.
Yes.
If some new TLD gets used in a dotless fashion in a way that truly
does cause major trouble, I expect we'll see sites all over the net
quickly deploying DNS resolvers that discard A, AAAA, or MX records
at the top level, to protect their users.
There is already deployed code to do that.
At 20:14 14-07-2013, Doug Barton wrote:
It is unarguably true that as things currently stand there will be
"problems" with dotless domains. How widespread, and how serious
those problems become is yet to be seen.
I haven't seen anyone in the IETF arguing that sufficient market
demand overrides comments about problems that will appear.
So either this is a good idea that will gain traction, and therefore
appropriate software support; or it is a bad idea that will go away
on its own. Either way, making a fuss
It is up to those who decide to decide whether dotless domains is a
good idea that will gain traction or a bad idea that will go away on it own.
At 20:25 14-07-2013, Dave Crocker wrote:
In contrast, assertions about "market demand" ensuring that
"software folks... will make them work" rests on a fuzzy concept of
market forces -- for example, the market of users isn't likely to be
issuing a formal or informal 'demand' about any of this, and a model
of altering installed-base behavior that has, I believe, has no
historical precedent.
Yes.
It is, in fact, possible that Marshall Rose was wrong and that for
some things, there is no possible thrust sufficient to make pigs
fly, or at least not without killing an extraordinary number of other pigs.
:-)
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
