Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>]

In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106200055140.23147 () joyce lan>, "John R. Levine" wr
ites:
> > 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.

There is a big difference between a handful of tld breaking the
rules, by making simple hostnames resolve to addresses in the DNS,
and thousands of companies wanting the rules re-written because
they have purchased "<tm>." and want to be able to use "user@tm"
reliably.

Simple host names, as global identifiers, where phase out in the
1980's for good reasons.  Those reasons are still relevant.

Mark

> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies
> ",
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