Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 16 June 2016 20:27 UTC

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See RFC3172.

I don't think .arpa is the correct place for this sort of stuff.

Joe

On 6/16/2016 12:21 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Ray Bellis <ray@isc.org> wrote:
>     > It should be noted (as pointed out to us by the Chair of the IAB) that
>     > the default domain need not be a single-label "pseudo-TLD" - it could
>     > be a sub-domain of an existing name in the DNS such as ".arpa".
>
> I propose that we use something like:
>           THING.hn.arpa
>
> Where THING is the local translation of "home".  
> I'm open to something other than hn (HomeNet), but it has to be really short.
> If we could get away with h.arpa, that would be cool too.
>
> Thus:
>         home.hn.arpa
>         ホーム.hn.arpa
>         maison.hn.arpa
>
> الصفحة الرئيسية.hn.arpa
>
> Well, the last one is supposed to be arabic, assuming that google translate worked, and my emacs's mixed left/right, and right/left stuff worked right, and my  MUA all do the right thing.
>
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