On May 12, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote: > > ... and this is some of the point of the .ALT pseudo-TLD -- if you > want to use a "TLD" that does not get resolved in the DNS, make your > namespace look like YYY.ALT. This *will* leak into the DNS, but should > be "dropped" (NXD) at the first resolver (helping with privacy and > general pollution issues). Now, if 5 people or 5,000,000 people use > it, it doesn't matter -- it never needs to be made a special use name, > because it isn't really in the DNS name space.
.alt is good for experiments, but I don't see it gaining popularity as a replacement for genuine special-use names. Compare .home to .home.alt, for example. There is elegance in the implementation, and there is elegance in the presentation, and I think the latter inevitably wins, whether we want it to or not. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
