On 08/08/2022 14.53, Jim Reid wrote:
How about having an IANA registry of these experimental TLDs? Those strings don’t go in the root. And they don't get added to the IETF’s special use list and ICANN is still free to create these TLDs if/when they decide to create more. This hypothetical IANA registry would primarily be to avoid name collisions between those who are experimenting with new name spaces or running stuff inside them. For bonus points, entries in that registry have to be supported by (say) an Informational RFC. Those registry entries could also come with a health warning: if ICANN or the IETF one day creates your TLD for real, you’re out of luck.
I fail to see how it's better. If you promise that ICANN won't put a name into root (say in the normal gTLD process), it's effectively taken. That's the .onion case all over again.
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