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Re: po / pot file integration: documentation


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: po / pot file integration: documentation
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:24:14 -0600
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On 08/17/2010 05:19 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>>> +po_maude_pot_MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS = bug-maude@@yoyodyne.com
>>
>> There was an example domain for email addresses, but it wasn't
>> example.com IIRC.  Using some arbitrary other one is not nice
> 
> It's not an arbitrary one. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne> says:
>    "The Internet domain name yoyodyne.com was allocated by internet
>     software designer TGV Inc. as a "fake" domain name for use in DNS
>     configuration examples."
> I chose it on purpose, because there is little risk that it collides with
> a real company's address.

But example.com is the preferred name set aside for this use, by RFC 2606:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com

whereas yoyodyne does not have the backing of an RFC.

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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