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

["Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear)" <[e-mail]>]

Hello from your friendly neighborhood independent submissions editor.

It is indeed the case that draft-schanzen-gns is in conflict review.  It 
is also the case that Warren and I have been discussing that review.  
Obviously there are some concerns.  On the one hand, we need to find a 
way for people to explore alternative namespaces that look a bit like 
domain names.  On the other hand, we don't want to create problems with 
user expectations.  draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld seems like a reasonable means 
to bridge these concerns.

The ISE is willing to wait a reasonable period of time for this work to 
conclude.   It seems that you are close to done.  I know that this draft 
doesn't solve *all* namespace research problems by any stretch, but it 
will make life easier for at least SOME researchers, not to mention me.

Whether that means using TLD labels that begin with _ or whether that 
means suffixing them with ".ALT", I leave to you experts to sort.  I do 
agree with Martin that it would be helpful to have some registration of 
names so that conflicts between name spaces can be avoided.  This would 
also encourage formal documentation of those projects.

Thanks!

Eliot (ISE)