Colleagues, The chairs have been working through concerns and issues around both the substance and the process related to special use names after the approval of .onion and our meeting at IETF 94 in Yokohama.
We note the following: The initial approach to further progress was to name a "design team" to work on a problem statement. There was no intention that the results of this initial group would have any special standing, or limit contributions by others; it was a way of bootstrapping a focused effort. This approach hasn't worked out exactly as we'd expected-- it confused people without making as much progress as we'd hoped. In particular, the discussion that followed the initial problem statement draft did not provide the guidance we sought on what additional resources might be needed for the design team to make further progress. In addition, we have lost one of the initial authors of the problem-statement draft-- Joe Abley has had to shift his primary focus in support of his day job. But we did get an internet-draft out of it, and some good discussion of how it might be improved. We think this provides a solid basis for further productive discussion. We're proceeding as follows: We've asked the authors of http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-adpkja-dnsop-special-names-problem/ to produce a revised version, to be based on input received in Yokohama and on the mailing list. Joe is not available, but Peter Koch, Alain Durand, and Ralph Droms are working on it. The -01 will be appearing shortly, and we would like discussion/review on it with the expectation that if the WG feels it's covering the main points, we'll adopt it as a WG draft. Adoption of the draft is a WG decision, and the IETF process requires that everyone be heard. So there will be plenty of opportunity to assess the draft, on the mailing list and in Buenos Aires. Once we've seen whether the WG wants the problem statement draft as a WG document, we will decide how to proceed, with or without an expanded "design team" to do further work on the problem statement. best regards, Suzanne & Tim
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