I think I might be partly responsible for the misunderstanding expressed in this thread.
I had failed to protest the comparison of a meta-TLD like *.dns to *.bit and *.onion. They are not the same thing at all, and hence the difference in terminology. I think I was able to state the difference more clearly and succinctly in another list, so hopefully it might help here: *.dns is a meta-TLD. You cannot register meta-TLDs. You own them already. There is therefore no need to register them. There might exist other terms for this concept, but I wasn't aware of them. Cheers, Greg -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. On Feb 8, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Tao Effect <cont...@taoeffect.com> wrote: > Paul, > > Your understanding is incorrect. > >> If the idea is that I can get a certificate with paulehoffman.dns > > That is not the idea. Docs are on GitHub, and I know you're smart enough to > comprehend them. > >> If this TLD gets allocated to someone else, or gets blocked by middleboxes > > It cannot get allocated by anyone else. It is designed specifically for > DNSChain servers, and they will not look that up in the old DNS networks. > > You can definitely fork the 120k and own it on the old network. It doesn't > matter. > > Documentation, that has gone through considerable improvements in the last 24 > hours, is still available at the same URL: > > https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain > > Cheers, > Greg > > -- > Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing > with the NSA. > > On Feb 8, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org> wrote: > >> On Feb 7, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Tao Effect <cont...@taoeffect.com> wrote: >> >>> It's a meta-TLD, not a TLD. >> >> Say what? If the idea is that I can get a certificate with paulehoffman.dns >> put in the field reserved for domain names, and have that accepted by TLS >> servers, it is a TLD. No "meta". >> >> If this TLD gets allocated to someone else, or gets blocked by middleboxes, >> you have no one to blame but yourself. It would be *trivial* to avoid this >> problem by buying an SLD and pre-paying for 20 years of registration. >> >> --Paul Hoffman >> _______________________________________________ >> therightkey mailing list >> therightkey@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/therightkey > > _______________________________________________ > therightkey mailing list > therightkey@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/therightkey
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