Erik, thanks for your review. Mark and Barry, thanks for your responses. I 
entered a No Objection ballot.

Alissa

> On Feb 6, 2019, at 3:04 PM, Erik Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 06:39, Barry Leiba <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> [3] Naive question: do we want a statement about reserving/agreeing to 
>>>> never
>>>> allocate "example" in the .well-known space?
>>> 
>>> Good question! I'm neutral on this; does anyone have strong feelings?
>> 
>> I wouldn't say my feelings are strong, but I think it's unnecessary.
>> The reason we have IP addresses and domain names set aside for example
>> use is that otherwise anything we put in documents might wind up in
>> actual use and result in nuisance traffic or worse.  If we publish an
>> example of .well-known in some document and decide to use "frobozz"
>> for the example, and "frobozz" some day winds up in actual use, what's
>> the harm.
>> 
>> Also, how useful is it to have exactly one example string?  Maybe we'd
>> need to assign anything that begins with "example-" as a reserved
>> string.  And then we're not far from "X-", and we know where that got
>> us.[RFC6648]
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> Mark used example.com <http://example.com/>-metadata in the doc, IIRC, which 
> I think makes
> it pretty clear that the example space is plenty large enough.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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