Re: [k8s-steering] Losing .io domains?

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Benjamin Elder

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Oct 9, 2024, 2:07:01 PMOct 9
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Hi all, I've drafted a proposal on the issue here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/127966#issuecomment-2402958359

It has a few remaining open questions, PTAL

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On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 8:28 AM Davanum Srinivas <dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
Folks,


On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 11:14 AM Tim Bannister <t...@scalefactory.com> wrote:
Hello Steering.

AIUI: we have five years at least, but: they'll go sooner than we think.

Tim Bannister
Senior consultant specialist
The Scale Factory

On Wednesday 9 October 2024 at 04:02:40 UTC+1 Benjamin Elder wrote:
.dev would be good but ... we're using k8s.dev for other (contributor facing) content already? e.g. k8s.dev/release != k8s.io/release

We need to be able to potentially move all the *.k8s.io endpoints without conflict ...

Also, if we think something like this is likely, we should be bracing for another round of notifying users and redirecting all the things.
We probably shouldn't have ever adopted .io but ... that's history now.

Migrating will be very painful.
Having a reserved alias live in place ahead of time would help.

I would not pick another country code TLD.


On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 6:54 PM Bob Killen <kille...@gmail.com> wrote:

we do have k8s.dev and IIRC are sitting on a few others as well.


On Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 8:48 PM Jaice Singer DuMars <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote:
I still have k8s.sh that I can donate to the project.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 6:24 PM 'Tim Hockin' via steering <stee...@kubernetes.io> wrote:
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

Maybe we should lock down some good alternatives?


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Benjamin Elder

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Oct 9, 2024, 2:46:30 PMOct 9
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FYI also +kubernetes-sig-release, see above folks!

Benjamin Elder

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ACK - As discussed in the issue, we don't necessarily think this is guaranteed to happen, but others have also pointed out that .io has not necessarily been well-managed.

However, past experience tells us that we users need quite a lot of time to migrate (downloads/images etc), so preemptively hedging is probably wise, beyond just planning.

On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 11:53 AM Taahir Ahmed <ta...@google.com> wrote:
The article is needlessly alarmist --- the IANA can (and has in the past) retained country codes after dissolution of the corresponding entity, and given them over to a successor entity to manage.

However, it's still good to plan out what we would have to do in order to migrate (especially since *.io has not historically been a particularly well-managed country code).

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Sean McGinnis

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Oct 9, 2024, 3:25:30 PMOct 9
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Also note that this is not a matter of the "dissolution" of an entity or poor management. There is a fundamental issue with the way .io has been used to date. So I think this goes a little beyond IANA transferring ownership to better management.


So whether .io does end up sticking around as a viable TLD for the project to use or not, I do think it makes sense as a community to come up with a plan to migrate away from it to something less problematic.


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