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Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Tue, 12 May 2015 16:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material
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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:28:36AM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote:

>The use that ICANN has chosen to sell for TLDs isn't something the
>IETF intended when we delegated that authority to them, so while I
>think we should try to be good citizens, we don't need to feel
>particularly guilty about taking special-use names if we have a valid
>reason for doing so and there is no pre-existing conflict.

This is a bizarre argument.  You don't get to kind-of delegate policy
authority this way.  Authority was delegated, and if we don't like the
outcome we can go pound sand.

A

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