Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <status-change-int-tlds-to-historic-00.txt> (Moving TCP.INT and NSAP.INT infrastructure domains to historic)

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Joe,

Thanks to Brian for the pointer.

At 02:04 AM 30-03-2022, Joe Abley wrote:
>For some reason I didn't see the original message, and searching 
>datatracker.ietf.org for "status-change-int-tlds-to-historic" 
>reveals no documents. So I am replying to what I have, but perhaps 
>matters have been overtaken by events.

I was able to reproduce the problem described above.

>I suspect the IESG can declare its published documents relating to 
>that domain to be historic which will aid the administrators of the 
>INT domain in making decisions about the remaining delegations. At 
>least some of the names attached to the TPC.INT project are still 
>eminently contactable and it seems entirely plausible to me that a 
>friendly consensus could be reached amongst everybody concerned.

The documents relating to the domain are not IESG-approved 
documents.  They are not covered by the agreement which supplements 
the ICANN-IETF MoU signed between the IETF Administration LLC and the 
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

>It is not uncommon for there not to be an obvious single point of 
>policy administration when the closer you get to the root of the 
>namespace, especially when you stir in ideas and services conceived 
>in a gentler, more informal era.

Yes.

>I don't think it's necessary for the IESG to claim or try to exert 
>policy control over the INT or TCP.INT domains for a measure such as 
>I imagine this document might be taking to be useful.

The IESG will be asserting policy control by moving forward.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy