Re: [DNSOP] [internet-drafts@ietf.org: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 06 December 2013 09:42 UTC

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On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:36:53AM -0800,
 David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote 
 a message of 60 lines which said:

> With the proliferation of new TLDs, how is anyone supposed to know
> if a TLD is a real TLD and not some pseudo-domain that looks like a
> TLD but isn't really 

I disagree with the use of depreciative words like "pseudo-TLD". A TLD
is a TLD in any case, specially if it is registered (in the USG root,
in the special domain registry of RFC 6761, etc). 

For .onion or its friends (.bit has been added to the new version of
the Internet-Draft), "non-DNS TLD" seems reasonable.