Re: [DNSOP] draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote on 2022-08-01 08:29:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 02:31:48PM +0200,
>   Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear) <[e-mail]> wrote
>   a message of 89 lines which said:
> 
>> ...
> 
> I agree and I think publication of these drafts would be a good idea
> (may be with status Experimental since, as Joe Abley said, there is
> clearly no IETF consensus). Note that I am skeptical about their use:
> most people who "preempt" .eth, .bitcoin, .web3 or .myownprotocol will
> not read the RFC and, if they do, won't follow it. But at least we
> will be able to say that we tried and we have a solution (and not a
> ridiculous one such as "pay ICANN 185 000 US $").

+1. the namespace will be locally augmented. we should describe a way.

i'm particularly interested in whether the root zone should have an NS 
for the private-label tld(s) (.alt or ._alt or whatever) with an NS of 
"localhost" and a dnssec "opt out" indicator so that these private tlds 
can fit into the authenticity infrastructure.

-- 
P Vixie