Re: [DNSOP] [internet-dra...@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

2013-12-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:40:36PM -0500, Warren Kumari wrote a message of 54 lines which said: > I really like .alt -- it makes it clear that this is an alternate > namespace type thing, mirrors the usenet alt convention, etc. .p2p > seems less descriptive, and not all alternate things are p

Re: [DNSOP] [internet-dra...@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

2013-12-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 08:37:28AM -0800, David Conrad wrote a message of 93 lines which said: > If I send my Pointed Haired Boss a note referencing pictures of him > with farm animals on photos.onion, he may try to click/cut-paste > that "domain name" in a browser. If he doesn't have the .oni

Re: [DNSOP] [internet-dra...@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

2013-12-05 Thread Chris Thompson
On Dec 4 2013, Joe Abley wrote: [...snip...] There was at least one study commissioned by ICANN on the prudence of provisioning DNAME RRs in the root zone that concluded that there was no obvious danger, but remember that any novel RRTypes in the root zone are going to need implementation time i

Re: [DNSOP] [internet-dra...@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

2013-12-05 Thread Tim Wicinski
On 12/5/13 3:36 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:40:36PM -0500, Warren Kumari wrote a message of 54 lines which said: I really like .alt -- it makes it clear that this is an alternate namespace type thing, mirrors the usenet alt convention, etc. .p2p seems less d

Re: [DNSOP] [internet-dra...@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

2013-12-05 Thread Warren Kumari
On Dec 5, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Tim Wicinski wrote: > > On 12/5/13 3:36 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:40:36PM -0500, >> Warren Kumari wrote >> a message of 54 lines which said: >> >>> I really like .alt -- it makes it clear that this is an alternate >>> namespace

Re: [DNSOP] [internet-dra...@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

2013-12-05 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 5 dec 2013, at 16:02, Warren Kumari wrote: > Convincing all existing users (e.g .local) to move under the new labor (e.g > local.alt) is probably a non-starter, but perhaps things like .bit, and new > things may do so… > One of the things that we repeatedly heard during the "namespace colli

Re: [DNSOP] [internet-dra...@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

2013-12-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Warren Kumari wrote: > > Sure -- I don't think that the string itself is important, but rather, in the > words of Connor MacLeod: There can be only one! > The difficulty is in the claim that these names are already "out there". If that is in fact true

Re: [DNSOP] [internet-dra...@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

2013-12-05 Thread David Conrad
On Dec 5, 2013, at 12:40 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> If he doesn't have the .onion >> overlay software installed and configured, he's likely to be >> disappointed/confused/angry > But it is the same problem with . You carefully edited out the parenthetical immediatel