- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:55:43 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, contact@publicsuffix.org
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Adam Barth wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, James Graham wrote: > >> I think the algorithm for determining if a domain is in the public > >> suffix list should be specified in detail somewhere, although I guess > >> HTML 5 is likely not quite the right place since this may be used in > >> non-HTML contexts. > > > > I agree that it would be nice if there was some text on > > publicsuffix.org that gave some normative-like text I could hook into > > here. > > 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. Sure, but such decisions cause the publicsuffix.org list to change. My point is that there is a list, but it is not in a form that is trivial to process (e.g. it has wildcards), so whether something "matches a suffix in the public suffix list" is not something that is normatively defined yet. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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