Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home

Those who come from cultures that speak languages descended from older or
different roots might challenge the universality of that proposal.  Perhaps
they might argue in favor of .kotiin or .घर.

I don't think there is a correct answer to this.   .local has worked, which
is the best we can hope for with whatever name we come up with.   If i18n
motivates different names depending on the UI language, that will be a
problem.   If we really think that the name shouldn't be in english, which
is a position to which I can certainly relate, it probably shouldn't be a
word in any language.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <
jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:

> > Where THING is the local translation of "home".
>
> Let us please not open this particular can of worms:
>
>   - how does software running on my laptop, which just connected to an
>     unknown network, find out what is the local translation of "home"?
>
>   - how does a user, even one who knows the local language, find out which
>     of the possible translations of "home" is the right one?  (What should
>     it be for Greek?  oikos?  opiti?  You are allowed to consult speakers
>     of Greek, but you must get them to reach consensus before the end of
>     the week.)
>
>   - how do I type οίκος on my French keyboard?
>
> There's some precedent for this kind of problems -- Outlook used to
> (incorrectly) internationalise the prefix "Re:" in e-mail replies.  Since
> software couldn't be expected to know all of the Microsoftese for "Re",
> you'd end up with subject lines such as "Re: Rép: Antw: Odp: ...".
> (Re, of course, is Latin for "about such thing", not the abbreviation of
> "reply".)
>
> (The right choice for Homenet, of course, is ".domus".  Although, now that
> I think about it, RFC 1034 doesn't mention whether domain names are in the
> nominative or the locative, so perhaps we should also consider ".domo".)
>
> -- Juliusz
>
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