From owner-cvs-all Mon May 6 4:55:42 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509C137B404 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 04:55:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 174h5P-0001kA-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 12:55:23 +0100 Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:55:23 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine Cc: Johan Karlsson , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Message-ID: <20020506115523.GB6460@submonkey.net> References: <20020505165847.GA13817@submonkey.net> <200205051808.g45I8qkx055023@nic-naa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205051808.g45I8qkx055023@nic-naa.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 02:08:52PM -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: > > > Shouldn't this be 'example.com' since you made an effort to change other > > > stuff to that. > > > > Well, example.{com,net,org} are all reserved, and since this is an ISP being > > referred to, I felt that example.net was more appropriate. > > Personally I wouldn't recommend any preference for an NSI property, there are > lots of countries (other than the mess of .us) which are reasonable choices, > and Donald Eastlake did suggest some conventions in RFC 2606. I'm not recommending anything, I'm just following the RFC you quoted. New users are probably more comfortable seeing domains of a form that they're familiar with. I also don't think that example.net actually belongs to NSI, it's just in the whois database to stop people trying to register it. My main concern was to not use myISP.com, which does actually belong to someone. Ceri > 3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names > > The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the > following second level domain names reserved which can be used as > examples. > > example.com > example.net > example.org QED. Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message