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Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Tue, 12 May 2015 13:17 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 09:17:45 -0400
To: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material
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On May 12, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
> 
> ... and this is some of the point of the .ALT pseudo-TLD -- if you
> want to use a "TLD" that does not get resolved in the DNS, make your
> namespace look like YYY.ALT. This *will* leak into the DNS, but should
> be "dropped" (NXD) at the first resolver (helping with privacy and
> general pollution issues). Now, if 5 people or 5,000,000 people use
> it, it doesn't matter -- it never needs to be made a special use name,
> because it isn't really in the DNS name space.

.alt is good for experiments, but I don't see it gaining popularity as a replacement for genuine special-use names. Compare .home to .home.alt, for example. There is elegance in the implementation, and there is elegance in the presentation, and I think the latter inevitably wins, whether we want it to or not.

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