On 9/11/14 10:58 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:42:45PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
3. You respond with the same URL, plus pontification on various topics,

If by "pontification on various topics" you mean "the bit about how
the new gTLD database actually can tell you what stuff has passed all
the hurdles, even if it's not in a form trivially useful to geeks",
then I suppose you're right.
>
including a list of already delegated TLDs that you point out is not updated
in real time

I didn't point that out, the page itself did.

From your message to Joshua:

"There's also http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings, but it explicitly says that it's not being updated in real time."

But maybe that's what you meant ... it's really quite hard for me to tell what the heck you're talking about at this point. :)

I am prepared to grant
it mystifying to me that ICANN, which holds the IANA contract, is
unable to mirror content from IANA pages into ICANN pages, but I am
not prepared to comment further.

On this we are in agreement.

Kim, if you're following this, your message today about the process that's followed by Verisign in updating ICANN about changes matches my recollection of the process, which is either comforting, or disturbing, I'm not sure which. :) It would be appreciated if you could communicate internally that the IANA department within ICANN has a process to keep the protocol parameters list up to date in (near) real time, and that there is a community expectation (quite reasonable IMO) that the equivalent ICANN pages also be updated in a timely manner.

about the need for ICANN to publish "'Here's what we plan
to delegate next,' without perhaps giving a time." Which, FWIW, is the exact
content of the URL that I (and you) responded to Joshua with in the first
place.

If that were actually the exact content of that URL, then I'd have
posted the URL in the first place and said nothing more.

So here is where the conversations goes off the rails. This page:

https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus

shows the list of applications, which ones have been approved, and the order in which they will be delegated. It doesn't have dates, but as far as I can see it completely meets your requirements for, "'Here's what we plan to delegate next,' without perhaps giving a time." I'm also not sure how "a form trivially useful to geeks" fits into the equation here, as this kind of list (per Joshua's original request) is really more of an FYI sort of thing, and not intended to be machine parsable. It's not clear to me why you'd want a machine parsable list of "here's what's going to be delegated next," but if you can come up with a use case, Kim may be able to hook you up. :)

Maybe the source of your confusion is that the URL above and the delegated-strings page that you keep going on about are actually quite different things? Have you visited the applicationstatus page? If not, I think you'll be quite pleasantly surprised. :)

It is
nowhere clear that that's what it is on any site that I've yet found,
and certainly the page itself does not indicate that.  I'd be pleased
to learn that
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings includes
dates in the future (or even "pending" in the date column), but I've
no evidence to support that.  If you have it, then I'd be super
interested in seeing it.

Now, did I get all that right?

Apparently not.

Because I really want to benefit from your wisdom here. :)

Many will tell you, in case you have not already figured this out
yourself, that the wisdom I proffer is pretty thin gruel.

And yet the thing that's great about you, Andrew, is that you never let that stop you from offering it anyway.

In all seriousness, I keep belaboring this point because I think it's useful for the community to know that the very thing that Joshua asked for is actually being provided by ICANN, and that it's a worthwhile exercise to review that list to see if any of your "internal-only" TLDs are on it.

It's also worthwhile to give this a read:

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/name-collision-mitigation-01aug14-en.pdf

since it describes the 127.0.53.53 stuff, as well as provides the interesting news that ICANN will "indefinitely defer delegating three TLDs: .corp, .home, and .mail." The doc goes on to explain that "indefinitely" does not mean "forever."

hth,

Doug

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