On 09/06/2016 18:35, Markus Stenberg wrote:
> Is that RFC6something process for getting gTLDs still blocked by > ICANN or whoever who is simultaneously celebrating their 1000th $$$ > gTLD? It's RFC 6761, and the process is suspended (AIUI) by the IESG. The history and politics of that are unclear, but to the best of my knowledge ICANN had nothing to do with it. My recollection of events is that the suspension of the process was related to the attempts to use it to register .gnu and a few others. There was insufficient clarity about what might have made those names "special" and therefore eligible for reservation as RFC 6761 "special use domain names" (with a distinct technical purpose) instead of being just like any other TLD in the global DNS name space that would have to be applied for through the ICANN process. That's also then tied up in the question of whether the trailing label in something that otherwise looks like a domain name is suitable in the general case for being a "protocol switch" signal (c.f. ".local") Personally I still think that ".home" would make a fine choice for HNCP (except for the language bias issue) but if is to be the choice we need to follow due process. Quite how we do that when that process is suspended is the challenge currently facing your chairs and AD. Ray _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
