Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

[Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>]

On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> wrote:

> Breaking tons of things is an interesting opinion of "why not”.

Eh.  Off the top of my head, I see two categories of breakage:

   1) things that hard-code a list of “real” TLDs, and break when their expectations aren’t met, and 

   2) things that went ahead and trumped up their own non-canonical TLDs for their own purposes.

Neither of those seem like practices worth defending, to me.  Not worth going out of one’s way to break, either, but…

And in the latter case, like “alternate roots,” that’s not an argument against creating more TLDs…  They’ve already 
been created.  It’s an argument against doing so in an uncoordinated manner, which is the source of the breakage.

                                -Bill

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