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Re: [DNSOP] Alternative Special-Use TLD problem statement draft

"Adrien de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com> Thu, 07 April 2016 21:54 UTC

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From: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
To: Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:54:44 +0000
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.local is another excellent example of where we ignore the specs.

If we stopped sending lookups for .local names via DNS (not multicast 
DNS), a lot of things would break.

Regards

Adrien

------ Original Message ------
From: "Patrik Fältström" <paf@frobbit.se>
To: "Adrien de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com>
Cc: "dnsop@ietf.org" <dnsop@ietf.org>; "David Conrad" 
<drc@virtualized.org>
Sent: 7/04/2016 8:10:37 p.m.
Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Alternative Special-Use TLD problem statement draft

>On 7 Apr 2016, at 3:44, Adrien de Croy wrote:
>
>>  It's one thing to reserve a TLD.  It's another thing to actually use 
>>it for something non-DNS.
>
>What about .local?
>
>    paf

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