Re: HTML5 and Public Suffix

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Zones do not work according to the implicit premises of
> publicsuffix.org, and they're never going to as long as we continue to
> use DNS.  What we might be able to do is come up with a trick inside
> DNS for zone operators to express their relationship to other zones.
> In particular, what I have in mind is a mechanism for parents to
> publish some sort of policy about their relationship to their
> children.  

This has been suggested in the past; once it's up and running and
widely-deployed, I'm sure the Public Suffix List could be retired.

> Probably this would not be in the DNS itself, but a record
> (maybe SRV or something like that) could go in the zone so that an
> agent could find the policy easily. 

Yngve capably lists the technical issues you need to conquer.

Gerv