Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Fri, 17 June 2016 04:43 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:42:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home
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Ordinary humans see names all the time.   See section 2.1 of the homenet
naming architecture; if you disagree with the reasoning there, please
suggest text!   :)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lemon-homenet-naming-architecture-00#section-2.1

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 07:53:42PM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote:
>
> >.local has worked
>
> But mostly because ordinary humans never see it.  That's what's not
> clear to me.
>
> Is this a name that will mostly be hidden by user-interface sugar
> (which is mostly how it works with mDNS -- please don't tell me about
> ssh.  That's not our audience, I maintain)?  If so, then any domain
> will do, and putting it under arpa would be fine.
>
> Is it a name that we expect people often to use in you-type-it-in
> contexts?  If so, then the story is very different.
>
> In any case, I'd really like "translation" to be off the table.  We
> are not competent to do that, and anyway we're specifying a permanent
> part of infrastructure that will not be able to evolve as (say)
> language evolves.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
> --
> Andrew Sullivan
> ajs@anvilwalrusden.com
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