On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote a message of 69 lines which said:
> If you are going to design something that looks like the DNS, but > isn't (something that looks like an overlay / uses dot separated > labels / "can be entered where you normally would enter an DNS > name"), There is no such thing as DNS name. We talk about domain names here, domain names exist outside of the DNS (LDAP, mDNS and other resolution protocols). > Convincing all existing users (e.g .local) to move under the new > labor (e.g local.alt) is probably a non-starter, but perhaps things > like .bit, and new things may do so… OK, then someone has to write a RFC6761-style Internet-Draft describing .alt, reserving it and doing so before too many new proposals pop up (because, once a name is used, it is almost impossible to change it). Any volunteer? (Not me, because I think that registering .alt will be as much effort as registering .anything, so it is pointless.) _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
