On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, at 09:44, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> I do wonder whether 'alt' is appropriate -- 'alternative' begs the 
> question of 'alternative to what?' and the answer is a technical detail 
> that most Internet users are blissfully unaware of. It seems to me that 
> it'd be better to choose something meaningful to users.

I still don't know why ".arc" never got off the ground.  An expansion of 
"alternative resolution context" addresses the DNS-centric perspective; the 
word implies OIDs, which interesting properties; and, who can resist the 
homonym, especially when there is Ark B [1].

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B

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