Re: [DNSOP] ALT-TLD and (insecure) delgations.

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 07:59:24PM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote:
> Mark, I don't think you've actually given an answer to my question.
> I understood that .ALT was for alternative naming systems, not for
> DNS locally-served zones.   We simply need to decide whether or not
> that's true.   I think either answer is fine; we just need to pick
> one.

I agree with this.  I will say that, when I first started working on
this with Warren, it was really for the use-case where people would
tread on the namespace as a protocol switch -- we wanted a sandbox in
which things like onion could live.  My memory is that only after that
did we start thinking of a sort of 1918-style part of the DNS as
well.  That may have been a mistake, since as this discussion is
showing the properties of an in-protocol, in-DNS namespace without
delegations are somewhat different to alternative-protocol uses that
do not rely on the DNS at all.

Best regards,

A

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