Re: [DNSOP] ALT-TLD and (insecure) delgations.

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 03 February 2017 20:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] ALT-TLD and (insecure) delgations.
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In article <A519902D-8B90-44A7-84BD-8A5FD1D15978@gmail.com> you write:
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>We (ICANN) have no mechanism or process for inserting a DNAME record into the root.  We do have a
>process for considering the general issue, but, so far as I know, no one has yet brought that idea
>into the ICANN/PTI arena.

There are ccTLDs that contain nothing but a DNAME (along with the
mandatory SOA and NS).  Maybe that's close enough.

R's,
John