Re: The case of dotless domains

2013-07-16 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi Doug, At 22:38 15-07-2013, Doug Barton wrote: Interesting, but pardon my being blunt, it does not seem to cover any new ground. You did say one useful thing: IETF specifications usually provide guidance to ensure interoperability. Whether dotless domains are harmful or not is a policy

Re: The case of dotless domains

2013-07-16 Thread Ofer Inbar
What this brings to mind is that we used to have implicit DNS domain search in the early days of DNS. When edu.com accidentally hijacked a huge chunk of the Internet, most of the net very quickly got rid of implicit search, and we got the explicit DNS search feature that many people are

Re: The case of dotless domains

2013-07-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 11:07 -0400 Ofer Inbar c...@a.org wrote: ... What this brings to mind is that we had a DNS system that was vulnerable to the addition of something to the DNS that people had expected nobody would make the mistake of doing, but it happened and caused damage,

Re: The case of dotless domains

2013-07-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20130716150721.gg29...@mip.a.org, Ofer Inbar writes: What this brings to mind is that we used to have implicit DNS domain search in the early days of DNS. When edu.com accidentally hijacked a huge chunk of the Internet, most of the net very quickly got rid of implicit

Re: The case of dotless domains

2013-07-15 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/14/2013 10:05 PM, S Moonesamy wrote: At 06:53 14-07-2013, Yoav Nir wrote: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-dotless-domains-00 That memo discusses about the case of the dotless domains in terms of the technical standards. Comments are welcome. Interesting, but pardon my

The case of dotless domains (was: Dotless Domain conflict with user searching and branding)

2013-07-14 Thread S Moonesamy
At 06:53 14-07-2013, Yoav Nir wrote: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-dotless-domains-00 That memo discusses about the case of the dotless domains in terms of the technical standards. Comments are welcome. At 13:11 13-07-2013, Ofer Inbar wrote: What this brings to mind