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

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 17 July 2015 14:53 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
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 Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:13:35PM -0400,
 John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote 
 a message of 74 lines which said:

> a separate DNS CLASS, say "SN" for "Special Name".  Zero impact on
> the ICANN/IANA root from queries gone bad, no conflict with names
> ICANN allocates even if the labels are the same (remember that
> QCLASS=ANY has never worked), etc.

Classes in DNS are an old idea (see
<http://web.archive.org/web/20091227142955/http://net4d.org/index1.html>
for a defunct project) see the recent thread starting on
<http://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/2JzQL2TeNc63qOoD7zl84Yu8p1I>
on dnsop, to see why it's a bad idea.

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