Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Some distinctions and a request - Have some class?
From: "Patrik Fältström" <[email-masked]>
To: manning <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Suzanne Woolf <[email-masked]>, Robert Edmonds <[email-masked]>, Andrew Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2015 23:58:53 +0200
List-Id: IETF DNSOP WG mailing list <dnsop.ietf.org>

On 3 Jul 2015, at 20:11, manning wrote:

> I guess my question here is, what would prevent House Finch Feathers OY from applying for the DNS(IN) string ONION from ICANN because they want that as a TLD in the IN class?

Nothing, if that is the goal, which I claim it is not.

The goal is to ensure that portion of the name space, rooted at ONION, is _not_ existing the portion of the name space reachable by the normal DNS. To ensure the name space is properly partitioned.

  Patrik