> On Dec 23, 2025, at 21:32, John R Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then let me rephrase it. What bad things have happened in the past 25 years? > What's different now?
Dad, my room is always a mess, why should I clean it up now? Technical debt is real. > >> What I said: > >>> I think my concern is reasonable that if we do change it, people will >>> misinterpret "historic" as something has changed about us Locality >>> Administrators and will imagine that the 3LDs I've been running for 30 >>> years might go away. At least one person in this discussion has said as >>> much. If anything, this is an argument to clearly show the IETF is not a stakeholder in this anymore and to facilitate to remove that confusion. > They're not who I'm worried about. It's "https://co.seneca.ny.us can't > possibly be a real URL and [email protected] isn't a valid e-mail address" > from people who saw something in The Register. Readers from The Registry don’t have change control over locality domains. > It already occasionally happens; so let's not do something with no benefit > to anyone which is likely to make it worse. There is benefit as some already indicated. We are just putting different weights on the arguments and disagree. I believe doing the right thing outweighs doing the wrong thing out of fear that what should be knowledgeable and responsible people, would accidentally start doing the wrong thing. > For the unpteeth time, this dog has been sleeping for 25 years. Leave it > alone. Again, technical debt is real. At some point it will bite you. We are responsible to try and not publish outdated information without marking it as such. Paul _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
