Re: [DNSOP] [[e-mail]: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

[Tim Wicinski <[e-mail]>]

On 12/5/13 3:36 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:40:36PM -0500,
>   Warren Kumari <[e-mail]> wrote
>   a message of 54 lines which said:
>
>> I really like .alt -- it makes it clear that this is an alternate
>> namespace type thing, mirrors the usenet alt convention, etc.  .p2p
>> seems less descriptive, and not all alternate things are peer to
>> peer.
> I agree that .p2p is a bad idea. .not-dns is worse (because it is a
> negative definition). For .alt, it is cute but I suspect that
> convincing the Tor people to switch to onion.alt, or to convince Apple
> to switch Bonjour to local.alt, will be some work...
>
>

I agree that while I think .alt makes sense to me, what makes sense to 
me is not what I expect upon others.
At that point .pony or stephane's .lolcats would make as much sense to a 
similar percentage of people.

I'd almost say we should name it .rfc#### which would not only be 
obvious to people who speak RFC, but would allow people to use their 
google machine to look up the RFC and learn something.

tim