[apps-discuss] "finding registered domains"

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

Dear colleagues,

In the APPSAWG meeting on Monday, the chairs have asked me to take
five minutes on the subject: topic.  I thought I'd better send a note
in preparation.

ICANN is in the process of awarding a little under 2000 new TLDs.
Inspired, I believe, partly by that fact, Phill Hallam-Baker suggested
a new DNS RRTYPE that would identify a name as a public suffix.
Unfortunately, he fell ill and didn't have a chance to submit a draft
on this.

I'm opposed to that particular idea, however, because I think I have
proposed a more generic mechanism that would still work just as well
for that use case, and also allow future refinements.  I've outlined
that mechanism in
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sullivan-domain-origin-assert-02.

I won't have any slides on Monday; I really just want to learn the
following:

    1.  Do people think this is work that needs to be done?

    2.  Do either of the above proposals seem like a good starting
    point?

    3.  If so, who is willing to do work on this (by reviewing and so
    on).  

(3) is especially important to me, because I received rather too
little feedback on the draft I offered to think that anyone else is
interested in pursuing it.  If people are interested in that draft,
I'm certainly prepared to continue working on it.

Best regards,

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
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