Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt> (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

"Patrik Fältström " <paf@frobbit.se> Wed, 15 July 2015 07:00 UTC

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From: Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt> (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard
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On 14 Jul 2015, at 21:47, George Michaelson wrote:

> But we do not exist in a vacuum and I think the combination of 'because we coded it that way'  and 'we want it' are really very poor reasons to enact the special-use domain name request.

Unfortunately that train left the station with .LOCAL.

What IETF might need is a stopping function for approval of usage of the domain name namespace outside of the DNS.

   Patrik