[105787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Jul 1 11:29:55 2008
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:29:33 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20080701115423.GA12890@nic.fr>
Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:36:06PM +0100,
> Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote
> a message of 15 lines which said:
>
> > It makes the "public suffix list" project harder, but so long as the
> > list of TLDs changes reasonably slowly, it shouldn't become
> > impossible. http://publicsuffix.org/
>
> Well, this list is a bad workaround for cookies specification problems
> and bad programming practices, so I'm not too concerned if it is
> perturbed.
I don't think bad programming can be blamed in this instance, and cookies
are so widely used and so fundamentally broken that a workaround is the
best way to improve their security.
Tony.
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