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Re: [DNSOP] back to: Some distinctions and a request

manning <bmanning@karoshi.com> Thu, 02 July 2015 23:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] back to: Some distinctions and a request
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agreed.  but a “reserved string” registry isn’t the way to do that…  at least in a scaleable fashion.

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On 2July2015Thursday, at 10:34, Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> manning wrote:
>> ... STRONGLY suggests that “domain-looking-string” is , in fact, a
>> host that is identified using the Internet DNS.
> 
> i agree with this interpretation, which means, it's the spec itself
> that's wrong, not hugo's interpretation of it. the internet people
> didn't love .UUCP addresses either but that didn't stop them from working.
> 
> what the internet should be doing is defining escape mechanisms for
> non-internet systems, rather than saying "we are the only thing you can
> use".
> 
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> Paul Vixie
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