Re: [homenet] alternatives to .home

Yeah, we went down the .arpa path with .local back in ~2000 and it was
soundly rejected. :)

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:

> 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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