> > It would be helpful to me in discerning consensus to separate two different > concepts here. > > 1. Delegating home/corp/mail in the root zone would be bad. > 2. Adding home/corp/mail to the special-use name registry would be good. > > Again, trying my best to speak as a disinterested observer of the discussion, > I've seen little support for such delegations(1). I've seen a couple of > arguments that seem to have strong support against such delegations. > > However, that's not the question in front of the WG. The IETF doesn't decide > what goes into the root zone. ICANN does, and appears to have already decided > (stipulating that not everyone believes them, which strikes me as a separate > problem) not to add those names to the root zone. > > The question in front of the WG is whether to propose adding those names to > the IETF registry for special-use names(2). I've heard support for that, but > I've also heard a number of objections to such additions, and I'm having > trouble telling how much the support for (2) is really support for (1) or > vice versa.
It's also of notice that the support level for doing $something (for some value of $something) with 2 of those strings (home and corp) are higher than the support level for one of those strings (mail). Rubens _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
