> On 16 Jun 2020, at 8:12 am, Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Suzanne Woolf wrote:
> 
>> 1. This draft as written takes no formal action to reserve anything for any 
>> particular purpose. It makes some observations about the administration
>> of ISO 3166 and its use in the ICANN context, and suggests to operators and 
>> implementers that the ISO3166 user-assigned 2-letter strings could be
>> suitable for local use in domain names. It does not include any IANA actions 
>> to update any registry or protocol element. So claims that this draft
>> reserves names or attempts to override ICANN policy about “TLDs” seem 
>> premature.
> 
> In a way, this is even worse. It is "marking" some TLD strings in a
> special way, without any official IANA registry or ICANN policy anywhere.
> 
> We have already seen discussion on how this could lead to increased root
> zone traffic, privacy leaks to public DNS, and the possible requirement
> of adding things to AS112.

+1

Geoff

(I must admit to being more confused than enlighted after Suzanne’s post!)


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