> Il 24 agosto 2019 00:35 Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> ha scritto:
>
> There was also some discussions with Jacob (or perhaps Alec) saying
> that if this had existed when they started, they probably would have
> used onion.alt instead of .onion.
>
> Whether or not people would *actually* have used it is unknowable, but:
> 1: at least now they *do* have the option and
> 2: in the future we can point at this instead of just having to agree
> that they didn't have an option other than squatting.
I am in favour of trying this: it is simple and it won't do much harm if it
fails, but it addresses a few of the problem cases specified in RFC8244 section
3 (I'd say #7, #8, and parts of #5 and #9). Of course it doesn't address the
problem of people who do not know or do not care, they will just continue
making up TLDs and using them - though some kind of information and peer
pressure effort whenever these cases arise could have some effect, as a
practical alternative would now exist.
Perhaps, as a guideline either here or somewhere in a future revision of
RFC6761 (i.e. here), application developers should be told that before asking
for a special use TLD they SHOULD/MUST experiment with a name under .alt, and
prove the existence of some running code, adoption and success before moving to
a TLD (and plan their implementations since the beginning so that such a move
can actually be done). This would act in two ways: it would avoid wasting
energy on discussing abstract special use TLD proposals that seem a great idea
to some while others claim that they'll never work, and it would encourage
people with successful .alt subdomains to move to a special use TLD to get the
benefit of guaranteed non-collision, if they see merit in it.
This is also why not having a registry under .alt makes sense. Having one would
make .alt second-level domains almost a functional duplicate of special use
TLDs, raising the bar to get them and making special use TLDs only better in
vanity/shortness, which would lead the IETF to have to deal mostly with vanity
TLD applications.
(Also, you have "handing" instead of "handling" once in 4.1.1 and twice in
4.1.2.)
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