On 11/10/2016 10:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 10 November 2016 at 09:27, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>> On 11/09/2016 07:27 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > Here are the items I would like to point out: > > 1. The TLD name should be something that DNS considers a known unknown > name. With the fact that IANA is allowing top level domains of all > sorts we do not want to end up having .fedora or .foobaz end up > causing thousands of computers saying they are in someones domain. So > .invalid .localhost .example .local or .test . I expect that > .localdomain might not ever be registered but who knows. > RFC 2606[1] reserves several TLDs that may never be registered for public usage. Out of those, going with Fedora-XXXXXXXX.localhost seems like the best bet. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#page-2 > 2. The XXXXXX is rather important because of two conflicting items. > One we don't want it to be too short that collisions might occur a > lot, but we don't want it to be too long for readability but also the > less collisions the more likely it can be used to track people. If we > don't care about making breadcrumbs which could be used to 'track' > people we need to be clear about it so that people who are not wanting > that can steer clear. [My 'I am an idiot about randomness' solution > would be uuidgen | sum and that number is used for this. There is a > good chance of uniqueness per small site and non-uniqueness overall. ] > Again, I think that tracking issues are orthogonal to this ticket. Anyone who sets a hostname *manually* is already unique. If that's something to be concerned about, then it's better to solve that at whatever layers reveal this information. > 3. case-sensitivity argument about Fedora or fedora looks to be a > bikeshed. There are probably local business reasons where having > caps/lowercase in names is important but in those cases they should > put in tools to conform to their local business reason. Yeah, I mostly just want Fedora for the proper noun. Since it serves no functional difference, I don't care much. After the conversation we've had so far, I *do* think we're more or less agreed that we want the longer "Fedora" rather than "fed" prefix though.
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