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

[Mark Andrews <[e-mail]>]

In message <CAKr6gn1fjJG=[e-mail]>,
 George Michaelson writes:
> 
> >
> > On 2014-02-12, at 11:28, Marc Blanchet <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > > - I like better that approach than the previous draft registering many
> > tlds.
> >
> > The previous draft (at least for some of the TLDs) was anchored in the
> > reality that changing the name already in use was not practical, e.g.
> > there's a sufficient deployed base that uses DNS-like names ending in ONION
> > that proposals to use things like ONION.ARPA were non-starters.
> >
> 
> I dissent from this view. I strongly disagree with any characterisation of
> the problem of code replacement in service being intractable, and I think
> it is a false premise.
> 
> I realize I am probably a lone voice on this, but at *no* time have I felt
> the "there are too many already" argument has merit, and it has materially
> impeded several outcomes we now face, because of failure to accept the
> necessary transition pain. The future is always bigger.

You are not a lone voice.  I have already described how to do such
migrations.  They take time but they are do able.
 
> > I think therefore that the ALT draft addresses quite a different problem:
> > the choice of DNS-like (but not DNS) name structure for new applications
> > that we don't know about yet.
> 
> And as a consequence I disagree with this too. An orderly migration from
> .ONION to another namespace is both feasible and capable of being planned
> for.
> 
> -G
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> <div dir=3D"ltr"><br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail=
> _quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Joe Abley <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a=
>  href=3D"mailto:[e-mail]" target=3D"_blank">[e-mail]</a=
> >&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
> x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D""><br>
> On 2014-02-12, at 11:28, Marc Blanchet &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:marc.blanchet@=
> viagenie.ca">[e-mail]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
> <br>
> &gt; - I like better that approach than the previous draft registering many=
>  tlds.<br>
> <br>
> </div>The previous draft (at least for some of the TLDs) was anchored in th=
> e reality that changing the name already in use was not practical, e.g. the=
> re&#39;s a sufficient deployed base that uses DNS-like names ending in ONIO=
> N that proposals to use things like ONION.ARPA were non-starters.<br>
> </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I dissent from this view. I strongly disag=
> ree with any characterisation of the problem of code replacement in service=
>  being intractable, and I think it is a false premise.</div><div><br></div>
> <div>I realize I am probably a lone voice on this, but at *no* time have I =
> felt the &quot;there are too many already&quot; argument has merit, and it =
> has materially impeded several outcomes we now face, because of failure to =
> accept the necessary transition pain. The future is always bigger.=A0</div>
> <div><br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex=
> ;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> <br>
> I think therefore that the ALT draft addresses quite a different problem: t=
> he choice of DNS-like (but not DNS) name structure for new applications tha=
> t we don&#39;t know about yet.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And as a=
>  consequence I disagree with this too. An orderly migration from .ONION to =
> another namespace is both feasible and capable of being planned for.</div>
> <div><br></div><div>-G=A0</div></div></div></div>
> 
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