Re: [DNSOP] draft-adpkja-dnsop-special-names-problem-01

[str4d <[e-mail]>]

On 29/03/16 07:53, John Levine wrote:
> Finally, no matter what we do, at some point someone will come by with
> .GARLIC which is like .ONION but stronger and they will say (with some
> justification) that it's used by a zillion people around the world.
> "You should have used GARLIC.ALT." "Yeah, I guess so, but we didn't,
> sorry."  Then we'll have to deal with it one way or the other.  I hope
> that .alt will push that day off farther into the future but it's
> unlikely to push it to infinity.

Injecting a little levity: I2P does in fact use a variant of onion
routing called garlic routing! But we are already in the 6761 process
for .I2P, and have absolutely no desire to take garlic any further than
a technical metaphor :)

str4d