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

[Michael De Roover <[e-mail]>]

On Friday, 9 May 2025 22:56:54 CEST John R Levine wrote:
> Consensus is a very loose term.  I would guess that most of the people 
> running networks that have private internal TLDs have no idea who the IETF 
> is, who sets the rules for the way the Internet works, and wouldn't use
> DNSSEC even if they knew what it is.

Sadly, that is true. Most of the people I talk to have no idea who the IETF 
is, and that even includes a variety of ISPs that I'd otherwise imagine to 
have a vested interest. Especially for .internal, where the expectation (as 
drafted) is to run your own zones for it too, but otherwise to be bog-standard 
DNS.

As far as relevance goes, I don't think that funneling as much of the .lan, 
.corp, ... usage as possible into .internal would be a bad thing. That would 
help establish the DNS and its root as a global namespace, that fewer people/
organizations would have a reason to unilaterally walk out of. Just like 
private-use address spaces (that are also loosely divided into 192.168/16 for 
home and 10/8 for professional use), .internal could be that 10/8 for DNS 
names.

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