In message <20160929025351.9873.qm...@ary.lan>, "John Levine" writes: > >No. Just because countries don't get assigned these values it > >doesn't mean that they can't be assigned by ICANN or the IETF in > >consultation with ICANN. > > I don't see how that follows. For over 30 years, the rule has been > that two-letter names are reserved for ccTLDs. There's never been any > hint in any RFC I have found that any two-letter names can be assigned > in any other way.
Things can change. It is ALWAYS a bad idea to use namespace not delegated to you. > >And who *needs* a fake tld? > > Nobody. We could use HOSTS.TXT. hosts.txt still takes domain style hostnames. This is a namespace issue not a resolution mechanism issue. > R's, > John -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
