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Re: [DNSOP] [internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se> Thu, 05 December 2013 15:05 UTC

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On 5 dec 2013, at 16:02, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:

> Convincing all existing users (e.g .local) to move under the new labor (e.g local.alt) is probably a non-starter, but perhaps things like .bit, and new things may do so…
> One of the things that we repeatedly heard during the "namespace collisions" debacle was that folk would like a "safe" place where they could put non-Interent DNS things. This seems related…
> 
> Things under .alt are not real delegations and are not guaranteed to be unique. There is no registry here (in the same way that .onion was not guaranteed to be unique

Agree.

I also think "machine-readable things" that can be reconfigured is easier to change than "naming conventions" that humans use. That kind of "already deployed" things are problematic.

   Patrik

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