Re: [DNSOP] followup and proposed actions: RFC 6761 interim and next steps

[Rubens Kuhl <[e-mail]>]

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> It would be helpful to me in discerning consensus to separate two different concepts here.
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> 1. Delegating home/corp/mail in the root zone would be bad.
> 2. Adding home/corp/mail to the special-use name registry would be good.
> 
> Again, trying my best to speak as a disinterested observer of the discussion, I've seen little support for such delegations(1). I've seen a couple of arguments that seem to have strong support against such delegations.
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> However, that's not the question in front of the WG. The IETF doesn't decide what goes into the root zone. ICANN does, and appears to have already decided (stipulating that not everyone believes them, which strikes me as a separate problem) not to add those names to the root zone.
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> The question in front of the WG is whether to propose adding those names to the IETF registry for special-use names(2). I've heard support for that, but I've also heard a number of objections to such additions, and I'm having trouble telling how much the support for (2) is really support for (1) or vice versa.

It's also of notice that the support level for doing $something (for some value of $something) with 2 of those strings (home and corp) are higher than the support level for one of those strings (mail). 


Rubens