On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:45:55AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote a message of 81 lines which said:
> The only avenue open to people who think this draft should not be > published is to claim that the "will be alphabetic" claim in RFC1123 > is not and never was an assertion to the rest of the network about > what assumptions they might legitimately make about TLDs. Correct. > If you think that we do in fact need an update to 1123 to clarify > things, then there is nothing at all wrong with publishing this > document right now, in order to allow the minimum necessary, and > then revisiting the question more completely Then I disagree: currently, nothing really forbids TLD-with-digits such as .3com or .fun4u If we publish draft-liman-tld-names-04 as it is, then the issue will be seen by many as settled and people will say "See, TLD-with-digits are forbidden by IETF" (when, today, people who dislike TLD-with-digits have to create their own policy). It will be much more difficult to change it after that. Note that there is no emergency for this document: it was supposed to be necessary for IDN TLD but, as we all saw, IDN TLD were created, proving that the entire issue of "RFC 1123 disallows it" was purely political. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
