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Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix

2013-11-26 14:16:00
On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Richard Barnes <rlb(_at_)ipv(_dot_)sx> wrote:
The evil bit is ridiculous because evil people have no incentive to set it 
(thus nobody would ever look for it to be set).  With the _nomap suffix, the 
people who would need to set it have an incentive to do so, and at least in 
certain cases, the entities that might consume it have incentives to obey it 
as well.

Yup.   Google certainly paid a high price recently for doing something 
analogous to ignoring this suffix.