Alt being semantically overloaded in times past, contextually even in domain names (Usenet, the great renaming) It seems highly unwise to ignore that historic understanding that people thought it meant the same thing as "burning man"
The string >not-dns< has two useful properties: its not currently semantically loaded, and its meaning is unambiguous. It has a third useful property: Its ugly. Personally, I favour use of the unicode U+FFFD � REPLACEMENT CHARACTER -G On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:57 PM, <internet-dra...@ietf.org> wrote: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations of the IETF. > > Title : The ALT Special Use Top Level Domain > Authors : Warren Kumari > Andrew Sullivan > Filename : draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-05.txt > Pages : 10 > Date : 2016-09-12 > > Abstract: > This document reserves a string (ALT) to be used as a TLD label in > non-DNS contexts or for names that have no meaning in a global > context. It also provides advice and guidance to developers > developing alternate namespaces. > > [ Ed note: This document lives in GitHub at: > https://github.com/wkumari/draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld . Issues and > pull requests happily accepted. ] > > [ Question for Working Group. It has been proposed that the string > .ALT should be replaced with something else e.g. .NOT-DNS. As naming > discussions in the IETF are always short, simple, and not > controversial, we figured we should open these for discussion now. > We would appreciate clear feedback on preference and rationale. ] > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld/ > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-05 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-05 > > > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission > until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
