Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Thu, 29 September 2016 17:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)
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>If the process was a success, we would have had the other candidates go 
>through as well. The process was a failure because it has been rather 
>arbitrary - which is why it needed to close down as it did.

Some of us think that the process worked OK, and the other candidates
don't meet the requirements that .onion did.

This isn't to argue that 6761 is perfect, but that we have little
agreement on if or how it's broken.

R's,
John