On 7/18/16 5:01 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> Yup.   In terms of minimizing risk to the IETF, switching to .homenet is
> expedient--that's why I put it in the Homenet Naming/Service Discovery
> Architecture doc.   Perhaps some homenet participants aren't aware of
> the issues surrounding this.   
> The reason we are getting so much top-down push from IETF leadership on
> this is not that IETF leadership are being political--it's that there's
> a real cost to the IETF if one of the GTLD people decides that we have
> taken a name for which they paid an application fee.   I apologize for
> glossing over this in my earlier response.

The failure to direct IANA to assign the TLD also means that we
encouraged  the creation exactly the sort of attractive nuisance that
the consensus around advancing 6761 intended to adress. The situation we
find ourselves imperils developers as well as end-users both those
intending to employ it as is described in 7788 as well as those that do not.

> If people are interested in better understanding this problem, I
> encourage you to read
> this: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tldr-sutld-ps-02#section-3
> 
> You can get more background by reading section 4 as well.   Bear in
> mind, s/.local/.home/ in section 4.2.4.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:33:28PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>     >
>     > .HOME has not been handed out by ICANN yet
> 
>     There are several applications for home in the root zone.  To my mind,
>     that means that home has been claimed as being inside the global DNS
>     context, and therefore is not available under RFC 6761.
> 
>     Best regards,
> 
>     A
> 
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