Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:37:29 -0400, Bruce Lilly <blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

> Charles Lindsey wrote:
> > It says
> >
> >       ".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain
> >       names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a
> >       glance are invalid.
> That is not a recommendation for anything -- it is a statement of intent;
> intent for use "online" and not via hard-coding -- and is certainly not
> a recommendation for use in address fields.
It is a statement of what that TLD is intended to be used for, with the  
expectation that it may well turn up online - i.e. in actual  
communications using assorted internet protocols.
However, if you want to see what the actual authors of RFC 2606 intended  
it to mean, you might care to look at
<http://purl.net/net/msgid/aacu37$clc$1(_at_)krell(_dot_)zikzak(_dot_)de>,
which not only confirms its appropriateness within Netnews, quoting the  
vary same texts I have been quoting at you, but also indicates that  
Netnews seems to have been one of the protocols particularly in mind when  
the .invalid TLD was invented.
> You have utterly missed the point of RFC 3696. The point is that
> hard-coding domain names is foolhardy
No, that is exactly what RFC 3696 does _not_ say. You have already  
presumed to understand what the authors of RFC 2606 intended to say, and  
been proved wrong. Do you want me to write to John Klensin and ask him  
what he really meant in RFC 3696?
>  ...  Now,
> IANA doesn't control TLDs, ICANN does; whether you have more or less
> faith in ICANN vs. IANA is another matter...
I have not that much faith in ICANN, but I cannot imagine that they would  
be so stupid as ever to create a real working TLD with the name ".invalid".
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