On 2017-02-06 11:58, Jim Reid wrote:
On 6 Feb 2017, at 11:25, Nicholas Humfrey <[email protected]> wrote:
In the context of the NTP pool, would it make sense to make gb. an
alias of uk., rather than having separate zones?
Probably not. Thanks to Brexit, what is now the United Kingdom may
well end up as Great Britain (ie without Northern Ireland). And
perhaps not so great either.... :-)
.gb is the ISO code for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland.
It is not distinct from .uk politically.
I'm not sure we should be making present day technical decisions based
on uncertain political futures. It can always be changed if in the very
unlikely case, something changes in the future.
I’d keep .gb and .uk as discrete, autonomous things. Just like they
are in the DNS.
What is the present day benefit of having two discrete zones?
In global DNS .gb is deprecated but reserved for the UK - that is
certainly an option for the NTP pool. The main thing is the remove the
confusion of having two zones called 'United Kingdom' in the zone list.
nick.
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