It appears that Mark Nottingham <m...@mnot.net> said: >This seems fine. > >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. > >That said, I struggle to suggest anything specific, and we have plenty of >examples of seemingly-relative names >still working in practice -- e.g., 'New York.'
The original impeteus was the alt.* usenet hierarcy. This draft has been bouncing around since 2014 and I don't ever recall anyone suggesting a name that worked beter than "alt". I think we believe that it doesn't mean something grossly offensive in any language we know. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
