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

David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> Fri, 08 May 2015 19:38 UTC

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>> What objective criteria makes those TLDs special?
> Data reportedly shows extensive off-the-books use in private networks.

What data?

> It's an obvious stability issue.

Agreed.

> I'd probably put "lan" into the same group, no doubt to the dismay of
> the South American airline group.


That's sort of what I'm getting at: I might agree (or might not, haven't looked at root query stats recently), but if the IETF is going to declare some TLDs as unusable for stability or other reasons, I believe we need some sort of objective criteria.

Regards,
-drc