Hi, While I guess most of you are in Prague having discussions about these things, I hope you won’t mind someone who is unable to attend but who follows your work on the mailing lists from expressing an opinion...
> On 17 Jul 2015, at 08:39, Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote: > > we only need one cutout, something like .external, with an > IANA-maintained registry of non-dns uses, each pointing to an RFC that > describes as much as is possible to describe about that use. Obviously, there’s a balance to be struck between short and long TLDs. The advantages of short ones include eating less of the finite name length limit and less typing for users, while their disadvantages include being less descriptive and having less possibilities. I find external (7) to be too long, that a length of 4 strikes a good balance. I agree with Paul’s comment higher up this thread regarding other uses of the word alternative and don’t feel that EXT is descriptive enough. Maybe it’s a British thing but when I want to contact someone or something elsewhere the word ring comes to mind, I ring them up or give them a ring. Remote Interoperability Namespace Gateway .ring Which of course would fit nicely with onion.ring :) According to ICANN’s website there doesn’t appear to be any existing application for it. Thanks, Ian Maddison _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
