It appears that Mark Nottingham <mnot@xxxxxxxx> said: >This seems fine. > >I do wonder whether 'alt' is appropriate -- 'alternative' begs the question of 'alternative to what?' and the >answer is a technical detail that most Internet users are blissfully unaware of. It seems to me that it'd be >better to choose something meaningful to users. > >That said, I struggle to suggest anything specific, and we have plenty of examples of seemingly-relative names >still working in practice -- e.g., 'New York.' The original impeteus was the alt.* usenet hierarcy. This draft has been bouncing around since 2014 and I don't ever recall anyone suggesting a name that worked beter than "alt". I think we believe that it doesn't mean something grossly offensive in any language we know. R's, John -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
