[142078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Jun 17 19:31:04 2011
Date: 17 Jun 2011 23:29:51 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <32195481.612.1308348129152.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>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.
Just to be sure I understand, you're saying that since you haven't
been paying attention until now, nobody else in the entire world could
possible have thought about this?
I happen to agree that adding vast numbers of new TLDs is a terrible
idea more for administrative and social than technical reasons, but
this is the first you've heard about it, you really haven't been
paying attention.
R's,
John
