On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 06:39, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > [3] Naive question: do we want a statement about reserving/agreeing to never > > > allocate "example" in the .well-known space? > > > > Good question! I'm neutral on this; does anyone have strong feelings? > > I wouldn't say my feelings are strong, but I think it's unnecessary. > The reason we have IP addresses and domain names set aside for example > use is that otherwise anything we put in documents might wind up in > actual use and result in nuisance traffic or worse. If we publish an > example of .well-known in some document and decide to use "frobozz" > for the example, and "frobozz" some day winds up in actual use, what's > the harm. > > Also, how useful is it to have exactly one example string? Maybe we'd > need to assign anything that begins with "example-" as a reserved > string. And then we're not far from "X-", and we know where that got > us.[RFC6648] Fair enough. Mark used example.com-metadata in the doc, IIRC, which I think makes it pretty clear that the example space is plenty large enough. Thanks.
