Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 6/16/2016 6:04 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:26:29PM -0700, Joe Touch wrote:
>> See RFC3172.
>>
>> I don't think .arpa is the correct place for this sort of stuff.
> Why?  "[T]his domain name undertakes a role as a limited use domain
> for Internet infrastructure applications," and
>
>    This domain is termed an "infrastructure domain", as its role is to
>    support the operating infrastructure of the Internet.  In particular,
>    the "arpa" domain is not to be used in the same manner (e.g., for
>    naming hosts) as other generic Top Level Domains are commonly used.
The use of .home is a lot more like a conventional TLD than it is like
any other use in .arpa (e.g., reverse lookups based on IP addresses,
telephone number mapping, etc.).

> If the names beneath this special-use name are supposed to cause
> software to do something differently than it would with any other
> domain name, then that sounds like "infrastructure" to me.  That's why
> we used it for the special IPv4 only name in dns64, for instance.

The software does exactly the same thing. Having a response is based on
a local database, such that the same query in different places gives
different results, is not uncommon in other TLD lookups.

Joe