Thanks, Ray. That seems reasonable to me. I won’t be in the meeting this afternoon (higher priority conflict), but I support the publication of both of these draft ASAP.
Margaret > On Nov 16, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Ray Bellis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 16/11/2016 09:53, Margaret Cullen wrote: >> >> What is the reasoning for using .homenet as the Homenet Domain, instead of >> registering and using .home? >> > > <chair hat partly on> > > 1. we cannot be sure that using .home is consistent with the > existing (ab)uses > > [e.g. BT in the UK already have about 5M CPE devices deployed > that are not "Homenet" devices but do use ".home" as their > default domain name. We don't know how those would interact] > > 2. ICANN is in receipt of about a dozen applications for ".home", > and some of those applicants no doubt have deeper pockets than > the IETF does should they decide to litigate > > NB: Whilst ICANN has previously said that they won't actually delegate > ".home" to any of those applicatants because of the amount of existing > (ab)use of that name that's visible at the DNS root servers, they are > under pressure from the applicants collectively to reverse that position. > > Ray _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
