[142221] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Jun 20 06:15:38 2011
To: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@NLnetLabs.nl>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:51:48 +0200."
<201106200951.p5K9pmsW051234@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:14:53 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <201106200951.p5K9pmsW051234@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl>, Jaap Akkerhuis wr
ites:
> Which is your choice. Lots of others want search lists. I've seen
> requests for 20+ elements.
>
> So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space.
>
> jaap
There is no ambiguity if tld operators don't unilaterally add address
records causing simple hostnames to resolve. Simple hostnames as,
global identifiers, were supposed to cease to work in 1984.
Mark
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