Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

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

>The justification for removing home/corp/mail primarily appears to be "because they showed up
>'a lot' at the root servers". Without characterizing this a bit better, it seems to me it would
>be trivial to set up situations to move pretty much any undelegated name to the "Special Names"
>registry -- just fire up a few thousand zombies to query names in the TLD you want removed
>using random source addresses.

Hmmn.  Is this a serious accusation, or is this just channelling the
usual domainers whinging about their business plans?  

Does anyone seriously argue that those domains aren't widely used in
private networks, and that nominally private DNS names leak all the
time?

R's,
John