On 11/10/2016 10:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 10 November 2016 at 09:27, Stephen Gallagher
<sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> On 11/09/2016 07:27 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
Here are the items I would like to point out:
1. The TLD name should be something that DNS considers a known unknown
name. With the fact that IANA is allowing top level domains of all
sorts we do not want to end up having .fedora or .foobaz end up
causing thousands of computers saying they are in someones domain. So
.invalid .localhost .example .local or .test . I expect that
.localdomain might not ever be registered but who knows.
RFC 2606[1] reserves several TLDs that may never be registered for public
usage. Out of those, going with
Fedora-XXXXXXXX.localhost
seems like the best bet.
[1]
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#page-2
2. The XXXXXX is rather important because of two conflicting items.
One we don't want it to be too short that collisions might occur a
lot, but we don't want it to be too long for readability but also the
less collisions the more likely it can be used to track people. If we
don't care about making breadcrumbs which could be used to 'track'
people we need to be clear about it so that people who are not wanting
that can steer clear. [My 'I am an idiot about randomness' solution
would be uuidgen | sum and that number is used for this. There is a
good chance of uniqueness per small site and non-uniqueness overall. ]
Again, I think that tracking issues are orthogonal to this ticket. Anyone who
sets a hostname *manually* is already unique. If that's something to be
concerned about, then it's better to solve that at whatever layers reveal this
information.
3. case-sensitivity argument about Fedora or fedora looks to be a
bikeshed. There are probably local business reasons where having
caps/lowercase in names is important but in those cases they should
put in tools to conform to their local business reason.
Yeah, I mostly just want Fedora for the proper noun. Since it serves no
functional difference, I don't care much. After the conversation we've had so
far, I *do* think we're more or less agreed that we want the longer
"Fedora"
rather than "fed" prefix though.