[PLUG] Naming RFC 1918 networks...

[wes]

In what way is a non-public TLD dangerous? BTW, the standard for that is to
use .local rather than .foo.

-wes

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Someone <plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:

> There seem be three options roughly:
>
> 1)  Use .foo TLD which isn't used on the Internet ( dangerous ).
>
> 2)  Use globally registered domain name ( wasteful ).
>
> 3)  Use a subdomain of a globally registered domain name ( limiting ).
>
> Option 1 is dangerous but desireable, because it involves less typing
> than say option 3 and isn't wasteful the way option 2 is.
>
> I have another idea of how this can be solved:
>
> Image this:
>
> http://local:www.ivorysoap.org
>
>           or:
>
> http://Internet:www.ivorysoap.org
>
>           or:
>
> http://www.ivorysoap.org
>
>           or:
>
> http://NetJapan:www.ivorysoap.org
>
>           or:
>
> http://NetUS:www.ivorysoap.org
>
>           or ...
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Explanation:
>
> The first one means this is a name of a private host on a private
> network that may or may not access the Internet.
>
> The second is an alternative to the third for people who
> want to be explicit.
>
> The third is anywhere on the Internet go to http://www.ivorysoap.org
> and this is in use today.
>
> The fourth, NetJapan, means on the Internet in Japan.
>
> The fifth, NetUS, means on the Internet in the United States naturally.
>
> I'm thinking that the geographic location indicator should be 8
> characters max.  Nobody can register local, private, or reserved.
>
> To ease the usage of this system, new versions of the popular web
> browsers can query what the global identifiers are and let you select
> the one you mean from a short list.
>
> The advantage is, name repeats become possible and what can be used
> inside a private network to name the machines opens up.
>
> With 8 characters and 26*2 possible choices for each character, that
> comes out to 52^8 ( a lot of possible strings ).  Some number of these
> strings should be discarded as nonsense.  Discarding case, about 20
> billion possible strings.
>
> I don't foresee people typing these geographic labels in.
>
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