On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:51:05AM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: > > yes, but not with .ALT, which is a politically desirable gTLD name, and > which allows the connotation of "alternate DNS". i suggested .EXTERNAL > because nobody will ever want it as a gTLD and because its connotation > is unambiguously "not DNS".
Do you have evidence that alt is in fact a desirable gTLD name? I note that we recently went through an empirical proof of desirability of such names, and at the very least it was not worth $185k to anyone. I guess you might be drawing a distinction between "economically desirable" and "politcally desirable", but I'm not sure how to measure the latter. One problem with "external" is that it's long. Part of the use case, recall, is that people want things they can bang into any old domain name slot in any existing application, and it'll fit. Using up 3 octets isn't so bad. Using up 8 seems wasteful. Would "ext" do the job for you? Does it matter to you that "external" has no unambiguous connotation in lots of languages? If not, then why is the difference between "alt" and "external" important? If so, why don't we need to reserve the, ahem, "equivalent" of "external" in every language, forever? Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
