Re: [dbound] resuscitating dbound (2022)

[Scott Kitterman <[e-mail]>]

On June 17, 2022 4:11:14 PM UTC, Paul Vixie <paul=[e-mail]> wrote:
>hello gentle beings. while at $dayjob, the topic of the public suffix list and its scaling limits has come up. i've agreed to gauge the community's interest in restarting the DBound WG, and so, here i am. i was not a member of the WG during its first heyday because my duties both to then-$dayjob and the DNS technical community were elsewhere.
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>i've re-read the "About dbound" text at <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dbound> and it seems to be exactly correct, and in that correctness, very prescient. i've read the drafts circulated "back in the day" and they seem competent and practicable. before i ask for a BOF at IETF 114, i thought i'd better talk to the known community of interest (that is, this mailing list).
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>who here is supportive of resuscitation? (and, who is opposed?)

My judgement is that the last run at this didn't fail for technical reasons.  It failed due to an inability to focus and deliver something useful.

Personally, I'm not interested in another attempt to boil the ocean.

What do you think will be different this time and why?

Scott K