- From: Henri Asseily <hasseily@telnic.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 16:10:36 +0300
- To: <public-mw4d@w3.org>
On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Kai Hendry wrote: > Any top level domain can serve NAPTR & LOC records right? I don't see > why you need a .tel TLD for this specific purpose. .tel is specifically for the purpose of publishing contact information. No A or CNAME records are allowed. You dont _need_ a .tel, but knowing it's a .tel guarantees that certain features and APIs are there. (specifically the Telhosting and friending APIs) > By that logic, shouldn't there be a specific TLD for LOC > records? .geo? It's not a question of TLD to record type mapping, it's what you do with the record types. NAPTRs can be used for almost anything, they're essentially key/value pairs (even better, they're domain/key/regex triplets). > And I guess it isn't specific, because people will also be using .tel > simply for A records, right? No. Can't do A or CNAME. Prohibited. Allowed are MX, NINFO, TXT, NAPTR, LOC and generic. But beyond that, there are structure definitions to the TXT and NAPTR records specifically for contact info purposes. H
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