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Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 17 June 2016 13:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home
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Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
    > 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"?

It doesn't. It uses HNCP.

    >   - 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?

You don't. You type "printer", and/or select "printer" from a selection menu.

    > There's some precedent for this kind of problems -- Outlook used to
    > (incorrectly) internationalise the prefix "Re:" in e-mail replies.

yes. I agree that this is annoying.

    > 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".)

That's definitely a good point. Outlook should have a bug that the English
translation of "Re" is wrong.

    > (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".)

I'm open to this idea... I prefer domus.


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