Re: [DNSOP] .ALT, was Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>... and this is some of the point of the .ALT pseudo-TLD -- if you
>want to use a "TLD" that does not get resolved in the DNS, make your
>namespace look like YYY.ALT. This *will* leak into the DNS, but should
>be "dropped" (NXD) at the first resolver (helping with privacy and
>general pollution issues). Now, if 5 people or 5,000,000 people use
>it, it doesn't matter -- it never needs to be made a special use name,
>because it isn't really in the DNS name space.

The comment in the jabber room to use .INVALID is intriguing.  I have
to say, I don't see anything that .ALT would do that .INVALID doesn't
already do, other than perhaps look slightly less ugly.

R's,
John