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

Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se> Mon, 02 December 2013 15:24 UTC

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On 2 dec 2013, at 16:16, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:35:44PM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> 
>> It would make more sense to me to reserve something like .alt where
>> people can plugin onion.alt, gnu.alt, etc, and are guaranteed that
>> the .alt domain will never actually be delegated by the root. 
> 
> And, behold, we have .arpa already.  We could just create anything we
> wanted under there.  I don't get why some new TLD is needed.

There are two issues here with the TLDs:

1. How to handle things technically "the best way"

2. Already deployed "things"

It is also the case that for some "things" the fact is that the actual resolution mechanism is not using the DNS at all, so the string to "match" must then be "foobar.arpa" or equivalent for whatever TLD is chosen to decide to use some non-DNS resolution mechanism for the string "foobar".

I am trying to wrap my own brain around this and what I think the best solution is...and do not have any really good solutions to suggest.

   paf