In message <20150521163003.70706.qm...@ary.lan>, "John Levine" writes: > > >I think reserving a DNS-like namespace anchor of ALT is unnecessary; as > >I mentioned in my comments about the ONION draft, you have a choice of > >anywhere in the namespace to place that anchor, and there are an > >enormous number existing places in the DNS where you can reserve a name > >without denting root zone maintenance processes or existing DNS > >namespace policy. > > As a matter of arithmetic, you are of course correct. But in > practice, some names are much more equal than others and .onion is a > lot more mnemonic than .alliumcepa or .vtdsknmsknd. I doubt whether > the people who started using .corp and .mail and .home in their local > software a decade ago imagined that it would ever become a policy > issue.
We were telling people back then not to use those names because it was a policy issue back then and it is still a policy issue now. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
