It appears that Christian Huitema <huit...@huitema.net> said: >AFAIK, the consequences would be minimal, as there is approximately zero >existing use of ".test" -- in constrast to say, ".local" or ".internal", >which both have very significant usage. Plus, whatever user they are >already warned.
If someone wants to squat or creatively reuse or whatever, there are plenty of places to squat that are unlikely to collide with future DNS uses. It is very unlikely that any of the ISO 3166 user defined codes like .zz will be assigned. But it seems to me that if this is not the DNS, it shouldn't try to pretend that it is the DNS. Use a name syntax that isn't hostnames, like something that includes a string like .. or ! Or set up GNS as its own name space and if they want to embed escapes to the DNS in that name space, go ahead, and there's nothing for us to say. I still do not see any reason that the IETF should carve out pieces of the domain name space for other people's experiments. There is plenty of room for permissionless innovation on the Internet, even if it means the programming to use it in a web browser or mail program is harder. There are at least two widely used open source web browsers and plenty of open source mail software. Stop asking for permission and start writing code. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
