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The ISOC.IETF Double Standard Continues Sans ICANN
When CISCO needed a TLD for $50 WIFI Routers
they selected .LAN, ICANN was not involved or
if they were, people kept it very quiet.
When Apple needs a TLD, they pick .LOCAL from
the tree and now point to how widely it is used.
ICANN was not involved. The ISOC and IETF of
course help to promote it.
http://files.multicastdns.org/draft-cheshir e-dnsext-multicastdns.txt
"Note also that the special treatment of names ending in ".local." has
been implemented in Macintosh computers since the days of Mac OS 9,
and continues today in Mac OS X. There are also implementations for
Linux and other platforms [dotlocal]. Operators setting up private
internal networks ("intranets") are advised that their lives may be
easier if they avoid using the suffix ".local." in names in their
private internal DNS server. Alternative possibilities include:
.intranet
.internal
.private
.corp
.home
xxxyyyzzz
The same thing happens with IP address space.
The large companies take what they need and
ICANN and IANA are not consulted or needed.
RIRs are not paid by Apple, AT&T, HP or IBM
for the massive allocations.
It is one big double standard, or maybe one
should call it two standards, one for the
insiders and one for everyone else.
It should not be surprising that this happens
because developers and companies have to move
forward to sell to the market. They would still
be waiting to hear from Jon Postel and products
would not be shipped to users.
What is surprising is the number of creative
ways the Internet Society and ICANN insiders
have in attempting to explain away the double
standard. It would appear to be more honest to
say, "Yep, it exists, we do not intend to
change, we are corrupt and like it that way."
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