Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

> On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
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> On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> wrote:
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> > Breaking tons of things is an interesting opinion of "why not”.
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> Eh.  Off the top of my head, I see two categories of breakage:
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>   1) things that hard-code a list of “real” TLDs, and break when their expectations aren’t met, and 
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>   2) things that went ahead and trumped up their own non-canonical TLDs for their own purposes.
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> Neither of those seem like practices worth defending, to me.  Not worth going out of one’s way to break, either, but…
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> And in the latter case, like “alternate roots,” that’s not an argument against creating more TLDs…  They’ve already 
> been created.  It’s an argument against doing so in an uncoordinated manner, which is the source of the breakage.

I’ve had operational issues introduced by *TLD operators and choices they made.  I’m not going to document them here, 
but by using the root zone as a dumping ground for vanity addresses (e.g.: .google) highlights something that can be 
properly dealt with through normal processes.

The number of things which will change from a predictable result to a unpredictable result (similar to when someone 
decided to wildcard .com) will continue to increase.

Thankfully we can now receive email from spammer@example.google as it properly resolves and validates(!).  (this is 
just one example).

- Jared