- From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:54:38 +1100
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, contact@publicsuffix.org
Adam Barth wrote: > I'm not sure if such an algorithm exists. The list of > registry-controlled domains is some social artifact that changes > depending on decisions made by registrars in small island countries > and provinces in Japan. He is talking about an algorithm that, given a list, gives a true or false answer to see if a domain is entirely in it (i.e. it is a public suffix and registry-controlled) or is a superset of it (i.e. is end-entity controlled). http://publicsuffix.org/format/ is our current best effort. [Note that I am currently not a subscriber to public-html@w3.org or any WHAT-WG list.] Gerv
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