[142063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jun 17 17:58:10 2011
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:54:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <00dc01cc2d35$de5dd630$9b198290$@nwic.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Barnard" <jbarnard@nwic.ca>
> I hope they've considered what will happen if you go to
> http://localhost/ or
> http://pcname/
>
> Is that the local networks pcname, or the gTld pcname?
> Are we going to have to start using a specially reserved .local gTld?
No, of *course* ICANN didn't give any engineering thought to it. Cause the
engineers? Are all *here*. And David Conrad's apparently the only guy
who's heard about it. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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