Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home

perhaps it would be easier/better to pick a name from the "reserved names" at the ICANN/IANA which cannot otherwise be used anyway?...

e.g. 2 character non-countrycodes:
QM 	QN 	QO 	QP 	QQ 	QR 	QS 	QT 	QU 	QV 	QW 	QX 	QY 	QZ
XA 	XB 	XC 	XD 	XE 	XF 	XG 	XH 	XI 	XJ 	XK 	XL 	XM 	XN 	XO 	XP 	XQ 	XR 	XS 	XT 	XU 	XV 	XW 	XX 	XY 	XZ

The above are considered "User-assigned: free for assignment at the disposal of users" in the ISO3166 standard but are still reserved by ICANN/IANA not to be used anyway.

Another option would be to add "-" or a digit to avoid collision, since those are also not currently accepted in ICANN TLDs. e.g. .H1 , .h-h

Just some thoughts... rather than using an alphabetic "word" 

Edmon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: homenet [mailto:homenet-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Juliusz
> Chroboczek
> Sent: Friday, 17 June 2016 07:13 AM
> To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
> Cc: HOMENET <homenet@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home
> 
> > 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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