[142202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Mon Jun 20 00:59:11 2011
Date: 20 Jun 2011 00:57:41 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110620044610.B5BEB10ED30F@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> And your technical solution to ensure "http://apple/" always resolves
> to "apple." and doesn't break people using "http://apple/" to reach
> "http://apple.example.net/" is?
Whatever people have been doing for the past decade to deal with
http://dk/ and http://bi/.
As I think I said in fairly easy to understand language, this is not a new
problem. I am not thrilled about lots of new TLDs, but it is silly to
claim that they present any new technical problems.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
