[142274] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Jun 20 17:22:46 2011
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:42:51 -1000."
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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:19:24 +1000
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <77733847-FBF7-460A-AD30-08DC42DC3E96@virtualized.org>, David Conrad
writes:
> On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >> So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space.
> > There is no ambiguity if tld operators don't unilaterally add address
> > records causing simple hostnames to resolve.
>
> EDU.COM.
See RFC 1535. Yes, a mistake was made implementing search lists.
A RFC was issued to say don't do search lists this way.
B.T.W. EDU.COM makes the point that TLD shouldn't make simple
hostnames operational as doing so deliberately add ambiguity or do
you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists?
Mark
> Regards,
> -drc
>
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