Re: [dnsext] we need help to make names the same, was draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02 comment

[Doug Barton <[e-mail]>]

On 02/18/2011 15:09, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:48:44PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>> Sure, that's possible. But I think it's very, very unlikely. As I said
>> in my previous post registries today are giving registrants the option
>> of whether to delegate the variants, I don't see this changing if we
>> give them a new tool to use.
>
> I've asked before, and I'll ask again now: what do you mean by
> "registries"?  Remember that we are _not_ talking only about the top
> level.

Define "top." :)  If you're talking about organizations registering new 
Top Level Domains with ICANN then the behavior regarding variants will 
be defined by mutual agreement so we don't have to worry there. If 
you're talking about how the TLD registries handle this issue with their 
registrants this behavior will also be defined in advance so the 
registrant will know what they are getting themselves into.

> It is certainly true that the commercial environment today
> concentrates most of the commercial relationships and delegations at
> the top level, and it is also true that most delegations below the top
> level are friendly and co-operative.
>
> But I'm simply not willing to say, glibly, "The future will resemble
> the past," in this area.  For instance, we are today in a commercial
> environment where the scope for expansion of the top level is very
> large, and there is little reason to believe that all of those new
> operators are going to do exactly the same thing as everyone else
> already has been doing.  We need to design this protocol change for
> cases we can plausibly imagine, not just what we happen to have seen.

The key word there being "plausibly." I don't foresee a scenario where 
TLD registries will "force" activating variants (whether by delegation, 
or some other solution we provide) on their registrants without warning.


Doug

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