Re: [dnsext] Some thoughts on the updated aliasing draft

"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Mon, 28 March 2011 12:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnsext] Some thoughts on the updated aliasing draft
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>i believe have unsligned (assymetric in fact) incentives here.  the folks
>who would have to upgrade are those providing services (internet wide).
>the folks who want this upgrade to happen are the name producers/sellers.
>we did the same thing in EDNS0 and that's why i predict a very long tail.

You may be right.  I don't have any insight to what extent the actual
users who speak Greek, Chinese, et al. care about making multiple
spellings work the same in their mail and web applications.

R's,
John