On 15/08/2022 18:55, Paul Vixie wrote:
if IETF decides at this late (2022) date to reserve part of the domain style namespace for non-udp/53 non-tcp/53 uses, nothing will break. that helps me understand the open ended _effective_ intent of STD-13, which is to build roads not walls -- in the best tradition of the Internet.
I have no problem with ".alt" being carved out like that, it's the potential proliferation of a multitude of such carve-outs that bothers me.
I also suspect that those specs that need it will in pratice be unable to co-exist unless each such namespace then gets its own "sub-domain" under .alt (e.g. .gns.alt).
Maybe there'll be an opportunity for having "real" domain names that effect a namespace switch via a DNAME or CNAME record into .alt? ;)
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