On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 08:16:26PM +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote: > Usability. Especially on small screens (mobiles, etc.), every character > matters.
Who even types domain names any more? On small screens, you don't type domain names. You use apps. The domain names are embedded in places. When I use the onion browser on my mobile, I follow links. In fact, I can see a stronger argument for, "More octets in the name takes away from the space of the 255 octets we have to work with," except of course since these names _aren't_ DNS, they don't have that limit. Except of course maybe they do, because people seem to want these alternative names to work just fine in every domain name slot. Fundamentally, this is where the problem lies: every one of these systems wants to do "DNS-ng" without fixing some of the big limitations. I have a great deal of sympathy for that desire, because I agree that "reformat the Internet" isn't really an option. But the fit is rather awkward. > Also, we're not "alt" (German for "old"), we're new! DNS is "alt". If the primary objection to _that_ draft is the string, the problem is easily resolved. > I personally also refuse to accept that ICANN somehow "owns" the entire > global name space. ICANN does not own it; indeed, the very existence of top level names in the special-names registry is evidence to that effect. But the IETF has in fact delegated the responsibility of managing the root zone to IANA, and the IANA operator is ICANN. Having made that delegation, it seems rather arbitrary of us to come along and yank back chunks of it for political reasons. Hence my concern. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
