Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>

> > i think he's seen RFC 1034 :-). anyway, i don't see the difference
> > between http://sony/ and http://sony./
>
> Neither do any of the browsers I use, which resolve http://bi/ as well
> as http://dk./ just fine. Whatever problem unqualified TLD names
> might present to web browsers has been around for a long time and the
> world hasn't come to an end.

C'mon, John; you've just been skimming the thread?

The problem caused by making monocomponent name resolution non-deterministic
has been covered in pretty decent detail, just today.

We didn't say http://apple/ wouldn't work... we said it wouldn't work
(as previously expected) *if someone already had an internal machine called
"apple"*... at which point http://apple/ might resolve to a new and different
thing which matched http://apple./

Saying "that's very unlikely to happen" only displays a fairly shallow 
knowledge of the *number* of different categories and shapes of large
IP networks that exist in the world.

Cheers,
-- jra
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