-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/21/2015 04:21 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > > It would make sense to call it a reserved special-use top-level domain name. > It's not a top-level domain in the DNS, though. > I think that's the distinction to make. > *** A distinction that the P2PNames draft made:
The abbreviation "pTLD" is used in this document to mean a pseudo Top-Level Domain, i.e., a Special-Use Domain Name per [RFC6761] reserved to P2P Systems in this document. A pTLD is mentioned in capitals, and within double quotes to mark the difference with a regular DNS gTLD. In the introduction, we specify the shared characteristics of pTLDs: The set of Special-Use Domain Names for Peer-to-Peer Systems (pTLDs) reserved by this document meet this requirement, as they share the following specificities: o pTLDs are not manageable by some designated administration. Instead, they are managed according to various alternate strategies or combinations thereof, introduced in this document, and their respective protocol specifications: automated cryptographic assignment (".onion", ".zkey"), user-controled assignment in a private scope (".gnu", ".i2p"), or in a global public ledger (".bit"), or used as a source-routing mechanism to delegate DNS resolution to a remote peer (".exit"). o pTLDs do not depend on the DNS context for their resolution: GNS and Namecoin domains MAY use the DNS servers infrastructure, as they return DNS-compatible results; and all pTLDs use specific P2P protocols for regular name resolution, covered by their respective protocol specifications. o When a pTLD protocol has been implemented, the implementation MUST intercept queries for the pTLD to ensure P2P names cannot leak into the DNS. o The appropriate pTLD protocols can be implemented in existing software libraries and APIs to extend regular DNS operation and enable P2P name resolution. However, the default hierarchical DNS response to any request to any pTLD MUST be NXDOMAIN. o Finally, in order for pTLDs to realize a censorship-resistant, fully-decentralized name system, and provide security and privacy features matching user expectations, this document specifies changes required in existing DNS software and DNS operations. == hk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVXjKhXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFQ0IyNkIyRTNDNzEyMTc2OUEzNEM4ODU0 ODA2QzM2M0ZDMTg5ODNEAAoJEEgGw2P8GJg9sR0P/RdE7DV7G8tmeJ75tAAS3lmC Au1SiOjeCdB1kN5ztifd6AvffeOqxueIUisvw7P1Tefow94kLOqR01gcfNd3q5kq nj52NmAya6dvnG3pCiyzclQviaZ3FxPOy5Bc1a8nwgCf+Km5Ze0AAjPmev7Y7QUD yrTaw7GpOdn6Q63VgFcekMbN7hEXpV2wY7U0dLEXvn0IKbggVFTjMf2T81FBNrlv 6shf9iqgso4ocUHz7CjZo3oyc+7uZcIZxJkBoi6a4AYO/s8nDWCv/cJF4Vx69Eej FRhBdqcngZtlDuUAcSTX6tCfYL8OAu2Lr3qKfL5seYxyluoghaRZ2RxR0kJbPgPa xI58qJZ44R5mNHfQ9JYJzo6Y4RU9XaK7/Wf7GanwnImYw0S/XbokwsJjf45rqhVj HYee6KuKNMj6Q46bIclBa/tmyVmWkRVoTnjr2dWf9L9+HzK4MfmRnzFim+9+jnYb 8ultuqWsmh7s5NnTaUlincGO1m9tXoqxSmAy9y6IG2LnkvDUOUelQAhtkFOEy4iB 6vnWv25V9vBewX9akqdCTZL53TAp3hFzcr+ku1j5qNjrkbTrUVHqENbf0fUUp7Rj U+wIky95YOrHDECiPDvPzAJw6dLQI+3TuytFChTFBV53yOH4bRCoiLUOcISJ5ULS ELRKa+P9ejBy73uJJVr7 =bz5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop