[dns-operations] Monday rant againt the uses of the Public Suffix List

[Paul Vixie]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 03:45:36AM -0800,
>  Jothan Frakes <jothan at gmail.com> wrote 
>  a message of 171 lines which said:
>
> ...
>> used by numerous software developers, programming languages,
>> browsers (cookies), search engines, security software, and many
>> other places.
>
> And 95 % of these uses are bad ideas: it creates false positives
> (.CW...) and false negatives (it's not because .COM exists that
> anything.com has a meaning).

passionate +1.

paul
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