Re: [DNSOP] Adoption and Working Group Last Call for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld

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

>They SHOULD choose a label that they expect to be unique and, ideally, descriptive.
>
>Is something that in reality won't happen, ...

Sure it will, for the same reason that the alt.* newsgroups worked and
continue to work.

Remember, this isn't the DNS.  The way you stake a claim to alt.foo is
to write software that implements whatever alt.foo is supposed to do
and get people to use it.  If two different people went to that effort
and found that they collided, that would be a huge pain for both, so
it's worth some effort to avoid that pain.  The idea of parking or
squatting on an alt.* name makes no sense.

To help avoid the pain, I think it would be swell to have informal
lists of the alt.* names, just as there are usenet servers with
informal lists of the alt.* newsgroups.  I would be happy to run such
a list with the clear understanding that the only rule for
registration is that you have to put something comprehensible in each
field of the form, and that multiple entries for the same name are
cheerfully accepted.  Maybe I would weed out the ones for projects
that appear to be dead, maybe not.

R's,
John