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Re: [DNSOP] additional special names Fwd: I-D Action: draft-chapin-additional-reserved-tlds-00.txt

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 26 February 2014 15:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] additional special names Fwd: I-D Action: draft-chapin-additional-reserved-tlds-00.txt
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On Feb 26, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:

> Perhaps all that is missing is some guidance that says “you shouldn’t hijack namespaces that you don’t control, even for non-DNS applications; register a domain instead”.

+1, with a short list of things that can go wrong if you hijack. I'd be willing to write that up (maybe with Joe; his sardonic humor is more fun than mine) if people here think it would move forward as an update to RFC 6761.

--Paul Hoffman

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