Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld-00.txt

[Olafur Gudmundsson <[e-mail]>]

On Feb 13, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Patrik Fältström <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 2014-02-13 10:23, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>> - why not just register a URN namespace and use it as they see fit?
> 
> Because you only type in a string that "looks like a domain name" in
> applications (for example browsers) without the URI scheme nowadays, and
> people want that to work also with strings in other namespaces.
> 
> I.e. it all, from my perspective, have to do with where the signalling
> is on what namespace to use. And if that signalling is inline, then we
> do have something that can be viewed as the equivalent of a namespace
> collision.
> 
> If people had entered the URI scheme all the time, including "http",
> then we would have been in a different situation.


I think that the draft is not radical enough it is trying to provide some belt and suspenders to a 
syntom rather than address the actual problem. 

The Meta problem is Multiple Namespaces with different resolution technologies. 
Addressing this via a SUFFIX in the domain name feels wrong, 
What I will propose is a Namespace layer solution that is a prefix to the name presented, 
thus names will be presented to the namespace layer as <namespace/name-encoding><space separator><name> 
Examples using ## as the separator
	DNS##www.example.com    This is normal DNS name, 
	GNU##eff 
	DUTF8##….. (DNS name in UTF8 format) 
	www.example.net    (by default the name is DNS) 
	
With a namespace layer we can have the host reject lookup locally if it does not know how to handle the namespace,
rather than dump it out as ".alt" query. 

I know this requires changes in lookup services and code, but it moves the effort to the people that want new namespaces. 

	Olafur
PS: IANA should maintain a registry of namespaces