Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote: > On Jun 15, 2020, at 18:46, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > > > The intro to this draft talks about things like x- which has been > > deprecated since RFC 6648. It mentions some situationw where .test or > > ..invalid would seem to be the right things to use, but it doesn't say why > > not. It lists a bunch of TLDs that are being squatted by devices that > > ought to move to home.arpa instead, but doesn't say why we have given up > > on that idea after only a couple of years, or why we should expect them to > > move to ISO 3166 reserved codes when they haven't moved to home.arpa. > > I don't remember any text in the document that talked about people > changing what they are doing.
Yes, that's why I pointed it out. The intro fairly explicitly says it's a replacement for .lan (etc.), but that raises questions about how this draft relates to other efforts to fix the .lan problem. I think people will read this draft as saying, don't do that home.arpa thing, don't do that .lan thing, do this. > Personally, I think the right advice for most people is that if you must > use private namespace you should anchor it at a domain name in the > global namespace that you control, so that your namespace is both > private and unique. Someone should write that document. I'll help, if > someone is interested. I agree that is the right advice. > But draft-arends-pitchfork-pitchfork-burn-the-witch doesn't provide that > kind of general advice; it provides specific advice for the case where > people have decided that a TLD is definitely needed by pointing out that Can't we continue to point out that they are wrong and there are better ways of solving their problems? I also appreciate that this draft is very clever, but speaking as an IOCCC winner, very clever things can also be things you should never do in production. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Trafalgar: Mainly westerly or northwesterly, 3 to 5, occasionally 6 in southeast. Moderate, occasionally slight. Showers in north. Good. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
