On 2 dec 2013, at 16:40, Olafur Gudmundsson <o...@ogud.com> wrote: > I have a big conceptual problem with it, > Why do people think that different namespaces should be identified by a > postfix?
The people that use browsers...that "just" type in something that looks like, smells like, and acts like a domain name... :-P Although DNS protocol is not in use for the name resolution, but HTTP is used for the actual protocol to fetch whatever data is to be fetched. > In DNS wire protocol we have classes, to me that seems like much better way > of handling this. > I even will question why are the not using something more expressive like > GNU#&#<domain_name> > > #@# is in this case a random string to separate namespaces > > I'm not sure the same resolution library should be used for different > namespaces that are distributed hash tables. Agree, but... > TLD live on the boundary of IETF and ICANN, we do not want to push that > boundary but allowing RFC to allocate what ICANN charges big bucks for. Correct, and that is why I think: 1. It is important to have this discussion 2. We should have different proposals for .bit (and similar) and other hash tables Patrik
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