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Here's the original email where I proposed .well-known:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/apps-discuss/1_a06NU8z...

> 1) I feel that /host-meta is too casual of a name and prone to collisions. It matches /^[\w\-]+$/, which I think is a subset of a fair number of sites' usernames."

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> i.e. put something ugly and weird in there, like a semicolon, to minimize the chance that it interferes with people's existing URL structure.

>>bradfi+(OP)
And later, how the semi became the dot: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/apps-discuss/j6KWTSTVC...

Fun bit of history!

>>bradfi+(OP)
Thank you!

>>bradfi+(OP)
This proposal made complete sense and the counter argument was of such a tiring kind. I see that from time to time in these old standards mail threads. I can't put my finger on it, but perhaps it is that they only saw the "now", not the future. Where the "now" was time when a webmaster were in charge of every website, and had complete personal control.