[DNSOP] Re: Call for Adoption: draft-davies-internal-tld

["Wessels, Duane" <[e-mail]>]

> On Apr 17, 2025, at 11:22 AM, Jim Reid <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Well there is the cost of setting up and maintaining some sort of registry which fully documents these special TLDs.* And the layer-9+ bickering over what does and doesn't go into this registry, who gets to decide, defining the criteria for adding or removing entries, etc, etc. IMO this isn't an issue for the IETF. I realise that ship has sailed because of earlier mistakes over the likes of .onion, .gns and friends. This doesn't mean we should repeat those mistakes.
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> If ICANN or some other body wants to have some sort of registry for its "special" TLDs, they can go ahead and do that. There's nothing stopping them. They don't need IETF approval. IMO there's nothing for the IETF to do here - apart from keeping well away from those toxic swamps.
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> * I suppose developers and DNS admins will have costs writing/maintaining/configuring code to support these special TLDs. A perceived(?) IETF-approved registry for them will just encourage more of this unpleasantness.
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Really?  IMO if .internal could be added to the locally served zones registry (which already exists) and then our resolver implementors would just add it to their out-of-the-box default configuration, that’s all that needs to be done.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/locally-served-dns-zones/locally-served-dns-zones.xhtml

DW