Re: [DNSOP] Mitigation of name collisions

["John R Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>>> The wildcard 127.0.53.53 and such are clever, but none of the domains
>>> that have been delegated had significant collision issues to start
>>> with so it's hard to argue they've been effective.
>> ...

> ... and just for the record, much much more could have been determined
> (and users better warned / informed) if the address handed out was a
> server which displayed an error / links to more information[0],

Gee, I'd think you of all people would be aware that there's more to the 
Internet than the web.  A wildcard with a live IP in those domains would 
be a terrible idea for the same reason that *.com was.

> or if the name-servers serving the wildcard were required to collect and 
> publish information and statistics. This would have allowed analysis of 
> the effectiveness of the mitigations, etc.

That, on the other hand, would be a good idea.  Since all of the new TLDs 
use the same dozen back ends, I wonder if any of the back ends could be 
persuaded to release anonymized data.

R's,
John