Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Thu, 29 September 2016 13:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)
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> On Sep 28, 2016, at 17:24, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 12:35:00PM -0400,
> Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> wrote 
> a message of 16 lines which said:
> 
>>> it works (two TLD were registered through it).
>> 
>> Are you referring to the two registrations as successes or failures,
> 
> In the absence of criteria for defining success or failure of a
> special-use TLD, it will be hard to tell. But the _process_ was a
> success: applications were written, examined, and the registry was
> updated.

If the process was a success, we would have had the other candidates go through as well. The process was a failure because it has been rather arbitrary - which is why it needed to close down as it did.