Re: [DNSOP] on private use TLDS

[Bill Woodcock <[e-mail]>]

> On Nov 26, 2019, at 11:46 AM, Jim Reid <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On 26 Nov 2019, at 10:18, Roy Arends <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> "Is it safe to use ISO3166-1 Alpha-2 code elements from the User Assigned range as top level domains for my own private use?"
>> It is my understanding that the ISO3166 Maintenance Agency can not re-assign codes from the User Assigned range. This needs an action from ISO TC46.
> 
> It would be prudent to assume that there is a possibility, no matter how remote, that codes from the User Assigned range could get re-assigned one day. Whoever made the current policy could well change it.

I think that once a range has been delegated, it’s just imprudent and counter to good sense to make any assertions whatsoever about what the delegate will do with it.  If two-letter TLDs are delegated to ISO3166, then just say so.  Say that whether or not end-users can use any of them for private purposes is at the discretion of ISO3166, and make no further assertions about it, since, as Jim points out, things can always change, and then you have misinformation floating about.

This doesn’t seem like a complicated principle to me, and I’m having a really hard time seeing what benefit could ever come from violating it.

If you delegate, you delegate.  If you don’t delegate, you don’t delegate.  Mixing the two is chaos.  The whole point of delegation is to scale without chaos.

                                -Bill