On 2010-11-23, at 20:26, Doug Barton wrote: > On 11/23/2010 16:19, Joe Abley wrote: >> >> 1. there is no restriction to be inferred from RFC 1123 that TLD >> labels be alphabetic; > > Unqualified "yes" to this.
I presume you appreciate that not everybody shares your opinion on this. >> 2. it is better for deployed software to break than for the IETF to >> involve itself in anything resembling policy. > > A qualified "yes" here. I'm saying that in _this_ situation, the IETF does > not and should not have a policy role, and should limit its commentary to the > technical. There is (rather obviously at this point) no _technical_ reason > that TLD labels should be all-alphabetic. Well, beyond the expectation in deployed software this should be the case. That's an operational consideration that I think is reasonable to describe as technical. > Furthermore I am saying that the benefits of keeping the TLD namespace open > to all technically possible values outweigh the costs. [...] I thought you weren't interested in discussing policy in the IETF? :-) Joe _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
