Re: the names that aren't DNS names problem, was Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt>

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

Remember: the WG and the IETF can always say "no".  I recommend it early
and in less deployed circumstances.

Eliot

On 7/21/15 10:54 AM, Suzanne Woolf wrote:
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>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 4:49 AM, Eliot Lear <[e-mail]
>> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
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>> On 7/21/15 10:25 AM, George Michaelson wrote:
>>> you can take the discussion here as indicating some loud voices for
>>> "RFC 6761 was a mistake" so the -BIS document should consider one
>>> option being to say "we made a mistake: we don't do this"
>>
>> Just don't consider me one of those voices.  We can always do better,
>> but it's not like we're piling on the names in that registry.
>
> This may not be a particularly good assumption. We have five requests
> being actively pursued in the WG at the moment, and were told
> yesterday in so many words that there are more to come. 
>
> The effort we’ve put into handling just one (.onion) is not going to
> scale well to even 10x, particularly if we want add some form of
> active coordination with another body’s processes.
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>
> Suzanne
>