Re: [DNSOP] on private use TLDS

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 29 November 2019 01:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] on private use TLDS
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> I do think the semantic meaning of the label is worth thinking about, 
> and I am wary of particular scripts or languages being chosen 
> arbitrarily. ...

Part of Roy's pitch was that the reserved two letter codes like .ZZ are 
equally meaningless in most languages.

> - has the advice to anchor a private namespace in a registered domain in 
> the private namespace really been received and judged to be 
> insufficient? Or has it just not been received? Could such advice be 
> delivered in a more effective way?

How long have wee been telling people to anchor their private namespace on 
a registered name?  It's on the order of a decade, I believe, and it's 
clear that for whatever reason people want something that's easy to type.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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