Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes?

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 01 July 2008 22:26 UTC

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From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes?
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At 5:53 PM -0400 7/1/08, John C Klensin wrote:
>Pretend I'm a fine, upstanding, citizen who is in the domain
>names business (I guess that would make me a "domaineer" :-))
>and whose business model is based on traffic concentration and
>redirection. 
>
>I think I would really like to own "local", although not as much
>as I'd like to own "example.com" or any other name to which the
>IETF or various protocol designs provide free advertising and
>traffic direction.  Every leaked name that might reference a web
>page would drive traffic to my site, as well as every action
>that led those who didn't know what was going on to open
>http://www.local./ to figure out what was going on.
>
>In a more sane world, no one rational would want to build a
>business or other activity around a TLD named "local".   But
>this is demonstrably not a sane world.

+1. I was approached by one such fine, upstanding citizen who asked 
which names "currently reserved by the IETF" would be most valuable 
for a search page.

This does not mean that ICANN won't listen to the IETF; it means that 
there will be voices more familiar to ICANN saying things different 
than we are.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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