[142068] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jun 17 18:10:57 2011
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D49F5B5-0F60-4FE8-9DC1-1F8D2C31D023@zaidali.com>
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---- Original Message -----
> From: "Zaid Ali" <zaid@zaidali.com>
> Just an example, it has hit main stream media
> http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/17/who-runs-the-internet/
The issue we're presently discussing *is not mentioned in that article*.
> Or you could have gone to one of the many free iCANN meetings where
> you can hear about this till your ears go blue. It has only been a
> topic for discussion for about 10 years :) but of course if it's not
> on NANOG it can't be true.
Course not. :-)
Notwithstanding that, globally resolvable valid DNS names *with no dots
in them* are going to break a fair amount of software which assumes that's
an invalid case, and that is in fact a *different* situation, not triggered
by the expansion of the *generic* gTLD space.
So, like DRC, your response isn't to my actual point. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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