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

[Karl Dyson <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 07:22:18PM +0100, Jim Reid 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.
> 

I agree we should not repeat mistakes, however, if a precedent already
exists for handling of special case TLDs, we should be consistent in our
approach, to avoid confusion among folks implementing, operating and
troubleshooting this camel.

>
> 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.
> 

...does the registry not already exist, tho?

I agree that we don't want unpleasantness, but again; if it already
exists, we should be consistent at least.

Not wanting or having unpleasantness is perhaps a ship that has
sailed...


Best wishes,
Karl

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Karl Dyson