Hi, On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 06:45:29PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> We have ways to talk to ICANN both formally and informally. Yes. > I suggest we talk to them. That's ok with me, but the key thing we need to admit is that if we want to create a special-use domain name that is actually intended for use with the DNS and has to work with the root zone, then we need to subject ourselves to the names community IANA procedures and not the protocol parameters community IANA procedures. That means that we're in ICANN's turf and we have to respect and follow their rules. Most importantly, > what I would do. The special names process delegates the name > space to us. the special names process doesn't do that or, if it does, it has no authority to do it. RFC 2860 definitely says we can create special names for technical use. I believe that 2860, section 4.3 (a) allows us to create such names at the root zone (though I note that not everyone agrees with me about that). What it does _not_ do, as nearly as I can tell, is permit us to create delegations from the root zone (even if they're functionally not very interesting or just delegated to the root servers themselves). We do not have that authority, and given that the IANA stewardship change just happened it seems to me we should be alert to the boundaries we have just reinforced. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
