Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?

ext Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Sure there are.  Here's a direct quote from the .mobi proposal:
>
>         Businesses and consumers that utilise mobile devices will
>         be able to take advantage of a wide range of Internet
>         services and content under the mTLD that have been specifically
>         tailored for access and use by mobile devices. The sponsored
>         TLD provides a clearly recognisable mobile label to the
>         services and content, indicating that they will be easy
>         and convenient to use with mobile devices. By choice of
>         suitable mobile-specific technologies, the service offering
>         can be adapted to mobile-specific characteristics, such as
>         the limitations of mobile networks and devices (throughput,
>         temporary signal loss, etc), which will result in a better
>         user experience for those services.
>
> I find it hard to interpret that text in any other fashion -- they want
> to describe end-to-end protocols by DNS name.
I don't quite see what the difference here is to .edu for example. Isn't
this indeed very similar to how the .edu provides a "clearly
recognisable" label for educational services and content?

Cheers,
Aki


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