Re: [DNSOP] additional special names Fwd: I-D Action: draft-chapin-additional-reserved-tlds-00.txt

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

>> Not really, because what you get by squatting on a TLD is nothing like
>> what you get if you rent it from ICANN.  Squats are all local
>> (mis-)use, with names only leaking onto the public Internet by
>> accident. 

>That actually depends on what you're doing with the name.  In the case
>of the names discussed in the chapin draft, that is true.  It's less
>true in all cases.

I think that all we're talking about here is reserving domain names
and saying that they should never resolve on the global Internet.

If the IETF finds good technical reasons to reserve some other name
for some other reason, e.g., peer to peer exchange of crypto
credentials or something, so what?  It's one less name for ICANN to
sell but I don't see why that would be our problem.

I suppose the situation with .onion is slightly different, but in
concept it's not all that different from .arpa.  It's a domain that
people are using for special technical purposes, so it's not available
for normal delegation.  The only ICANN delegated name that's the least
bit interesting is .TEL, an attempt to create an online directory
using NAPTR that is a failure, so they're unlikely to do any more.

R's,
John

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