Fred,

On Sep 17, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <f...@cisco.com> wrote:
> IMHO, since ICANN has created the situation, 

ICANN has created ill-specified domain search path heuristics and truly 
fascinating implementations of those heuristics?  ICANN has caused people to 
use non-allocated TLDs in environments where queries for those non-allocated 
TLDs hit the public Internet?  ICANN had made applications dependent upon 
receiving NXDOMAINs in a way that implies the root of the DNS should never be 
expanded (even for country codes or internationalized domain names)?

> the ball is in ICANN’s court to say how this works without disrupting name 
> services.

Actually, name services aren’t disrupted. They are behaving exactly as 
specified in the DNS and as intended.  What is disrupted is (typically unknown) 
assumptions people have made regarding the composition of the top-level of the 
domain namespace. ICANN has been working to try to help mitigate the issue for 
some time now (initial discussions occurred in 2010).

> Their ill-informed hipshot is not our emergency.

Hipshots are generally not a good idea, regardless of whether they are 
ill-informed. 

Whose emergency it is probably depends on how the delegation of new top-level 
domains impacts the operation of your network. To date, in cases where there 
was impact, the affected parties have worked to address the issues and (AFAIK) 
no emergencies have been experienced.

Regards,
-drc

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