On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 10:34:42AM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: > what the internet should be doing is defining escape mechanisms for > non-internet systems, rather than saying "we are the only thing you can > use".
The Internet _has_ done that. Unfortunately (and I do think it's unfortunate), the Internet did this by in-band signalling in things that go in domain name slots in protocol strings. That what local. (and, given its deployment, onion.) are doing. I don't have to like it to recognize that this has happened, and that as people who are trying to design systems to maximize interoperability we have to cope with those facts. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
