Re: [DNSOP] [[e-mail]: I-D Action: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-00.txt]

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:00:30AM -0500,
 Joe Abley <[e-mail]> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> Saying that using a non-IN class is a non-starter seems about as
> silly 

There have been an ITU project to use classes (UN instead of IN?) to
have different namespaces, probably to have the new spaces managed by
the ITU. The project was named Net4d (Web site seems down now).

AFAIK, the project did not even attempt to actually test (at least in
in the lab) that it was feasible to use other classes. Knowing what
we know about the ossification of the Internet and the DNS, there are
very good reasons to be pessimistic.

If we want actual testing of the ability to run non-IN classes, I
accept donations in bitcoins to do so in my lab :-) But, anyway, you
have very little chance of convincing any developer to spend time in
this direction, which is clearly dead.