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Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt> (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-08-12 12:05:00
On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) 
<kevin(_dot_)darcy(_at_)fcagroup(_dot_)com> wrote:

In retrospect, the definition of the “http” and “https” schemes (i.e. RFC 
7230) should have probably enumerated clearly which name registries were 
acceptable for those schemes,

I generally try to avoid enumerating things that are known to be false. All URI 
schemes that use authority
intentionally refer to the local mechanism of name lookup, even if that name 
lookup only uses DNS as the last
in a long line of alternative registries.  The client is responsible for 
choosing a mechanism which produces
a correct mapping for any given authority, regardless of whether that is 
defined for them by /etc/host, WINS,
DNS, third-party https-based DNS lookup, etc. The folks referring to resources 
using those schemes are
responsible for making those references unambiguous, usually by naming 
convention rather than any
specific set of syntax rules.

....Roy

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