Hi Joe, > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> > Sent: 16 October 2022 20:30 > To: Brian Dickson <brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com> > Cc: Eliot Lear <l...@lear.ch>; Rob Wilton (rwilton) <rwil...@cisco.com>; > Suzanne Woolf <swo...@pir.org>; dnsop@ietf.org; DNSOP-Chairs Chairs > <dnsop-cha...@ietf.org> > Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Possible alt-tld last call? > > Op 16 okt. 2022 om 15:03 heeft Brian Dickson > <brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: > > > For example, using a hash function, such as sha2-256, with output encoded > as base32hex. > > (This is just an example; any suitable function that takes URI as input and > produces an ASCII DNS-compatible label as output would suffice.) > > If we start from the position that names in this shared namespace don't need > to be semantically meaningful to humans then this whole problem space > becomes a whole lot easier, or perhaps doesn't even rise to the level of > "problem". See also 98% of the work done by the ICANN community and > arguably the entire business models of registries and registrars. > > However, I don't think we are starting from that position. For example we > hear there is demand for .giraffe for the giraffe naming system described at > https://giraffe.org/ because using giraffe.org as an anchor for that naming > system in the namespace is not acceptable to anybody who cares about GNS. > > If giraffe.org doesn't cut the mustard then I have my doubts that > jduxbenebrnjxudnxznbrnr.alt will satisfy anybody either. > > (If giraffe.org can't be tolerated then I also don't see why giraffe.alt is an > obvious solution, but I sense people are tired of hearing me say that so I'll > leave it this parenthetical cloak of invisibility and continue whistling > innocently.)
You may be right, but I don't think that we can really know this unless we try. And at least if we did standardize .alt then we are offering a sanctioned mechanism for supporting alternative domain resolution systems. I think that we know that gns is willing to use .alt, so we have at least one taker. Rob // No hats. > > > Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
