Hi Martin and Mark, I think you're off-base here, so much so that I can't tell if you're serious. It's a cultural issue, not a technical one.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.*_hierarchy l don't want to read any of those Usenet groups, but they do exist. This is just a way of framing such things in direction-switching URLs, rather than the coherent Usenet naming system. I think it's fine, and I don't care. thanks, Rob On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 3:59 PM Martin Thomson <m...@lowentropy.net> wrote: > 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 > > -- > last-call mailing list > last-c...@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call >
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