I haven’t read the latest version in a few weeks, and I must have missed the part about the “alt” TLD. (Actually, I just checked, and my memory was correct—it isn’t there.) My problem with the “alt” TLD as originally proposed was that there was no registry. I think this is nearly useless. It’s fine for experiments, but once the experiment is done, you need an allocation. And then you have a flag day, which sucks, so why not just have an allocation to begin with?
If we want to have a special TLD under which all new non-DNS protocols will publish their names, we need a registry for it. This doesn’t need to be very heavyweight, but it needs to exist. I think “specification exists” is probably the bar for entry. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
