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by wibblenut 16y ago
Because .tel was approved specifically (and solely) for this purpose :) Here's Telnic's quick 5 minute pitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnRwniqqiCE
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by wibblenut 16y ago
I'm trying to get all of my friends to use .tel domains. That way they own their data and I can discover all of their URIs dynamically (through DNS) from various apps. It doubles up as a web based "business card", which makes it a slightl
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by wibblenut 16y ago
Quick correction - .by is the ccTLD for Belarus and is not regulated by ICANN.
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by wibblenut 17y ago
>A fraction of a second delay probably wouldn't be noticeable to the end user It is (try it), and retries/outages would be very noticeable. One of the applications I'm particularly interested in is directory services, and as you can ima
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by wibblenut 17y ago
Well, if you're looking up a name, for example from a dialer on a mobile device, or navigating through some kind of directory service; are you going to be happy hanging around for a HTTP request (or several)? DNS was born to do this; it's l
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by wibblenut 17y ago
Using an e-mail address as your identifier kind of defeats the purpose. Google's webfinger takes this approach, using TXT records to map your email address to an XRD document. But this adds a lot more complexity and means doing an extra HTT
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by wibblenut 17y ago
>I can point the A records for any other domain anywhere I like but with .tel I'm stuck with the providers choice (or have I misunderstood?). Ah I see. Yes, the Address record stays pointing at the TelProxy web server (incidentally a ma
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by wibblenut 17y ago
>they should be used the other way around if you believe the RFC, although wikipedia also uses this order FYI the spec changed between rfc2916 and rfc3761: The format of the service field has changed. The old format was of the form
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by wibblenut 17y ago
>Perhaps this is a dumb question: How does that solve the problem? Either its readable by all or by none. There's a service called TelFriends that brokers keys between you and your friends. Ordinary people don't have to care about that
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by wibblenut 17y ago
>why would they buy a .tel when there's other namespaces with more freedoms? What freedoms are you referring to? >I'm not sure that this is as practical a benefit as it sounds. If you were to ask me what my ".tel" is and I responded
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by wibblenut 17y ago
>NAPTR is already misused for sip location imho Why? >Could they make it any more complicated than this? It may look messy, but complicated? You can write a parser in a few minutes. It's simple and it works.
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by wibblenut 17y ago
You can encrypt your records. >DNS isn't exactly designed to withstand that kind of abuse (You can't block someone, you can't ratelimit someone, etc). It's hard to take out somebody's nameservers, since there's no single point of failur
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by wibblenut 17y ago
Fair question. The short answer is simplicity and practicality: * Most people don't own a .com (or .whatever) for personal use - and never will - so what are the advantages? * The suffix indicates the capability. It wouldn't be obvious that
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Shopzilla co-founder discusses how .tel will change the way we communicate(windley.com)
14 points by wibblenut 17y ago|26 comments