On 7/8/15, 13:51, "DNSOP on behalf of Rubens Kuhl" <dnsop-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of rube...@nic.br> wrote:
> >> Em 08/07/2015, à(s) 14:33:000, Edward Lewis <edward.le...@icann.org> >>escreveu: >> >> On 7/8/15, 7:36, "Suzanne Woolf" <suzworldw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> For example, the distinction between gTLDs and ccTLDs is of great >>> importance to ICANN and to participants in its decisions, but of less >>> obvious relevance to an application developer or DNS operator who sees >>> only "name that gets a positive response to a DNS query against the >>> public root zone." >> >> It's not that the distinction between gTLDs and ccTLDs matters, I >>believe >> that what matters first is whether this is an issue best handled in the >> DNS protocol or in the operational conventions applied to placing names >> into the root zone. As much as I spend time trying to distinguish >> characteristics of TLDs, I don't think any of that really matters in >>this >> context, at least in the high level. > > >Actually, a better distinction would be between ISO-controlled allocation >and ICANN-controlled allocation, not gTLDs and ccTLDs. For 2 ASCII >letters, ISO is now considered authoritative in allocating pair of >letters to countries and territories; ICANN's only decision is whether an >organization represents that country in RFC-1591 terms. >But when it comes to IDN ccTLDs, registries need to pick a 2-char IDN >string, submit to ICANN which then decides whether that combination is to >become a ccTLD or not; with IDNs there is actual decision on whether that >string is to be allocated as a ccTLD. Hmmm. I'm confused in many ways about this reply. My comment above is that, as far as the thread on the Special Use Domain Name registry and any potential replacement of the process of making an entry in it, it doesn't really matter how or why a name appears (or doesn't) in the DNS to the software handling the names. But beyond that, ISO, has, as one of its many functions, the job of maintaining the ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 codes. I did some web searching and found this reference which might clear up "ICANN-controlled allocation" : http://icannwiki.com/CcTLD and, in particular: http://www.iana.org/help/eligible-tlds As far as the "IDN ccTLDs, registries need to pick a 2-char IDN string" - I believe that to be factually incorrect. The Fast-Track process here: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/fast-track-2012-02-25-en has details. But there are plenty of examples of more than two character IDN ccTLDs already, I think. For example, Mongolia's which 'looks like' MOH : https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/xn--l1acc.html There are many names that "are longer" scripts I don't understand enough about to count "characters". Like one of Sri Lanka's : https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/xn--xkc2al3hye2a.html
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