Re: [homenet] WGLC on "redact" and "homenet-dot"

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Dec 12, 2016, at 11:29 AM, Ralph Droms <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>> There are two approaches we can take to this.   One is to proceed--ask ICANN to do the delegation and see what happens.   The other is to take the more expedient, less satisfying approach: use .home.arpa instead of .homenet.   I'm not in love with this as an end solution, but it has the advantage that the IAB controls .arpa, and so we can get an unsecure delegation right away assuming the IAB agrees.   I see no reason to think they would not.   It's a bit more typing, and there is the problem that the fourth google result for arpa is "Advanced Research Projects Agency.   But it would work, and quickly, and would keep the whole process in the family.
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>> The other alternative is to continue with the original plan: do the special-use names registry allocation, and send a liason to ICANN asking them to do the unsecure delegation.   The downside to this approach is that we won't know whether the outcome will be success or failure for a long time, possibly several years.   And the outcome could very well be failure.   The upside is that we get the name we all want; the downside is that we are a long way down the road with no win.
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> So, now I’m a little confused by the alternatives; for clarity, does the paragraph that begins “The other alternative” refer back to the “ask ICANN to do the delegation” approach?

Possibly I could have proofread that one more time before I sent it.   The other alternative that I am referring to in the second paragraph is the first alternative I referred to in the first paragraph.   That is, _not_ the expedient version.

>> I should point out that whichever way we go, we already have solved the immediate problem: we have a name that HNCP can use, the potential liability for IETF is dealt with, and our prototypes can be made to work.
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> Are you referring to “.home”, “.homenet”, “.home.arpa” or some other name to use as the HNCP default?

What I mean is that whichever alternative we proceed with, we can use that name as the new name to put into the HNCP spec.   So either .homenet or .home.arpa.