[142071] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Fri Jun 17 18:17:58 2011
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
In-Reply-To: <22653040.608.1308347687356.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:12:13 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joel Barnard" <jbarnard@nwic.ca>
>=20
>> I hope they've considered what will happen if you go to
>> http://localhost/ or
>> http://pcname/
>>=20
>> Is that the local networks pcname, or the gTld pcname?
>> Are we going to have to start using a specially reserved .local gTld?
>=20
> 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. :-)
I have seen many NANOG folks at ICANN meetings discussing this and also =
active on ALAC so David isn't the only guy. Also do a search on the list =
and you will find threads dating back.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.nanog/56728/match=3DgTLDs
Zaid=
