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

[David Conrad <[e-mail]>]

Ted,

> On May 14, 2015, at 1:03 AM, David Conrad <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> What qualitative difference do you see between those uses of numbers and the use of TLDs like CORP?
> 
> Lack of scarcity.

Sorry, I don't understand this response in the context of whether or not the folks making use of the space "owns, rents, or otherwise has lawful permission to use" for that space (be it number space or name space).

In the context of names, sure, there are a 37^63 (+/- a few) possible TLDs, yet we see the huge spikes of traffic for CORP/HOME/MAIL at the root, so it would seem blatantly obvious that there is scarcity, albeit perhaps in imagination if not the actual resource.

However, as I said, how it is labeled is somewhat irrelevant. What matters to me is figuring out the objective criteria by which we can determine whether and/or how a particular label is being used so much that its delegation in the DNS would damage the Internet's security/stability.  So far, all the criteria I've seen to date boils down to Justice Stewart's "I know it when I see it" which makes me uncomfortable.

Regards,
-drc