Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-12 Thread David Conrad
Mark, On Jul 11, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >>> This is why you have working groups not check lists for evaluating. >> >> RFC 6761 specifies an IETF "Standards Action" or "IESG Approval", not a >> working group decision. > > That why we have groups of people look at the request. Not

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-11 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , David Conrad writes: > > Mark, > > > It's like the judge said "I know porn when I see it." > > Potter Stewart's 1964 expression was thrown out in 1973 in favor of a > more objective standard (see the "Miller Test"). > > > Something are just subjective. > > Extreme corner cases may re

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-11 Thread David Conrad
Mark, > It's like the judge said "I know porn when I see it." Potter Stewart's 1964 expression was thrown out in 1973 in favor of a more objective standard (see the "Miller Test"). > Something are just subjective. Extreme corner cases may require subjective analysis. I believe the vast majori

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , David Conrad writes: > Andrew, > > On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Andrew Sullivan > wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:53:22PM +, Alain Durand wrote: > >> > >> - RFC6761 does not say anything wrt to coordination between IETF and > ICANN > >> on this topic. > > > > Or with regar

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-10 Thread David Conrad
Andrew, On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:53:22PM +, Alain Durand wrote: >> >> - RFC6761 does not say anything wrt to coordination between IETF and ICANN >> on this topic. > > Or with regard to co-ordination between anyone else and the IETF. T

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:53:22PM +, Alain Durand wrote: > > - RFC6761 does not say anything wrt to coordination between IETF and ICANN > on this topic. Or with regard to co-ordination between anyone else and the IETF. This is part of why I say the IETF retains the ability to take some names

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-09 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/09/2015 12:53 PM, Alain Durand wrote: > I don't think I can make it to Prague, > Here is a short list: > > - RFC6761 does not say anything wrt to coordination between IETF and I CANN > on this topic. > How did the RFC6761 reservations happ

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-09 Thread Alain Durand
On 7/7/15, 8:28 PM, "DNSOP on behalf of hellekin" wrote: >In my opinion, what we need is already there, and is called RFC6761. >Now I'm all ears for what needs to be done to enhance RFC6761 process. Here is a short list: - RFC6761 does not say anything wrt to coordination between IETF and ICA

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-09 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
David Conrad writes: > > In the past, ISO-3166/MA maintained a color-coded "decoding table" that > clearly identified the "user assigned" 2-letter ISO codes. However, for > reasons that I'm sure made sense to someone, they stopped publishing the > decoding table (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-08 Thread manning
Hum… The then director has no recollection of that and a request to ICANN to produce such a letter was denied. All we have is an assertion that a request was made. Neither Herb, nor Bob have any idea what happened. In the interests of openness & transparency, one might expect less demure beha

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-08 Thread David Conrad
Jaap, >> Thanks. I didn't check the tables before writing. I was pretty sure >> xq wasn't already assigned to a specific country or territory, but I >> didn't think about a '1918' style designation of two letter codes. >> Perhaps we need another subset to put these into. It would be a >> 'final'

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-08 Thread David Conrad
No. At the time, the Administrative Contact as listed in the IANA Whois database was USC-ISI. They (IIRC, the Director of ISI) requested the TLD to be removed from the root zone. Regards, -drc > On Jul 8, 2015, at 12:57 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > >> On Jul 7, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Dr Eberhard

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-08 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That corresponds to my recollection. el On 2015-07-08 08:57, Bill Woodcock wrote: > >> On Jul 7, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse >> wrote: My recollection is somewhat different from the AC >> "requesting" the revocation. > > I meant the Depart

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-08 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Steve Crocker writes: > >> xq > > > > 'pq' is a better example. 'xq' is classified as User Assigned, which > > means it has been assigned for use by anyone for their own purposes. 'pq' > > is (using Wikipedia�s term) unassigned. > > Thanks. I didn't check the tables before writing.

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-08 Thread Bill Woodcock
> On Jul 7, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > My recollection is somewhat different from the AC "requesting" the > revocation. I meant the Department of the Interior. If I’m remembering correctly. -Bill signature.asc Description: Message signed

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-08 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Steve Crocker writes: > > For the alpha 3-code the complete user assigned set is: > > > >AAA-AAZ, QMA-QZZ, XAA-XZZZ and ZZA to ZZZ > > > > so one could argue that the delegations for TLD xyz (and maybe xxx) is > > a actually against the rules in ICANN�s Application Guide Book. > >

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/7/15 4:48 PM, Steve Crocker wrote: It seems to me that UM did appear in the root and then was taken out of service. I doubt we’d want to see it assigned to another country or territory in the near future. I’d put it in subset 8 unless it were brought back to life in the service of the s

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/07/2015 08:00 PM, Alain Durand wrote: >> >> o Does the IETF have a process for moving a name from subset 2 to >> subset 4? > > what is needed is a process that is less ambiguous and simpler to > evaluate than RFC6761 to reserve strings in sub

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread Steve Crocker
Thanks. Minor comments in line below. Steve On Jul 7, 2015, at 5:42 AM, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: > Not taking a stand on this, but some more remarks on these thoughts. > > Edward Lewis writes: > >> >> On 7/5/15, 7:26, "DNSOP on behalf of Steve Crocker" >> wrote: >> >>> 3. (ICANN) Two letter

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread Steve Crocker
On Jul 6, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Edward Lewis wrote: > On 7/5/15, 7:26, "DNSOP on behalf of Steve Crocker" > wrote: > >> 3. (ICANN) Two letter Latin characters that have not yet been assigned by >> the ISO 3166 maintenance agency but might be in the future. Names in >> this subset may move to subs

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread Alain Durand
Putting the focus on this part of Steve¹s original email for now: On 7/5/15, 7:26 AM, "DNSOP on behalf of Steve Crocker" wrote: > >o ICANN speaks indistinctly about subset 5. > >o Does the IETF have a process for moving a name from subset 2 to subset >4? Ideally, I would argue we may not need s

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Sorry for the empty previous post. My recollection is somewhat different from the AC "requesting" the revocation. But then the then AC reads this list and can relate himself if he wishes to do so. And I was quite upset at the time because I wanted dibs on IMODI.UM (just for the fun of it, not fo

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
-07-07 11:27, Bill Woodcock wrote:> > As I'm sure our resident bad-idea-fairy can relate in greater detail, .UM was a delegated ccTLD with SLD subdelegations and at least one user, before the administrative contact requested that the TLD delegation be rescinded or deactivated or whatever you want t

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread Bill Woodcock
As I'm sure our resident bad-idea-fairy can relate in greater detail, .UM was a delegated ccTLD with SLD subdelegations and at least one user, before the administrative contact requested that the TLD delegation be rescinded or deactivated or whatever you want to call it. Just a little more co

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Not taking a stand on this, but some more remarks on these thoughts. Edward Lewis writes: > > On 7/5/15, 7:26, "DNSOP on behalf of Steve Crocker" > wrote: > > >3. (ICANN) Two letter Latin characters that have not yet been assigned by > >the ISO 3166 maintenance agency but might be in th

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-06 Thread Edward Lewis
On 7/5/15, 7:26, "DNSOP on behalf of Steve Crocker" wrote: >3. (ICANN) Two letter Latin characters that have not yet been assigned by >the ISO 3166 maintenance agency but might be in the future. Names in >this subset may move to subset 7 to become active ccTLDs. Examples: > > xq 'pq' is

[DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-05 Thread Steve Crocker
This note is an attempt to describe how things work today and to bring some precision to the current discussion. Except very mildly under the ISSUES section at the end, this note does not propose anything new. This is quick draft. There might be errors, missing pieces, assumptions, etc. Plea