Re: [DNSOP] draft-liman-tld-names-04

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 01:15:23PM +1100, James Mitchell wrote:
> If deployed software does not work with a TLD, it is the TLD owner who loses. 

I'm sorry, but that claim is arrant nonsense.  We _all_ lose.  The
IETF is supposed to be about interoperability, and if stuff breaks
because we have decided, "We don't care lalalalalala I can't hear
you there isn't a problem," then we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.

I think Joe's pragmatic approach is the right one: document right now
that whatever the restrictions might historically have been, we are
quite explicitly going to permit at the very least one class of
labels.

If people feel strongly that in fact the TLD label restriction never
was there and should not be, then once this document is published you
all can go out and write the draft, "TLD label character restrictions
considered harmful", and pursue the publication of that as an RFC.  In
the meantime, we have at least a technical document that makes clear
that certain things are permitted.

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