In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Hoffman writes:
>At 11:58 AM -0400 10/3/05, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>>Wouldn't it at least make sense to require that the .gprs
>>"pseudo-TLD" be reserved by IANA under Section 4 of RFC 2860
>>("technical work items" and
>>"assignments of domain names for technical uses"), with the proviso that
>>this TLD must not be resolved, except locally ?
>
>Absolutely not. There are already literally dozens (if not hundreds)
>of such local tlds, some of which have the same names for different
>purposes.
>
Yup. And if ICANN were to create a real .grps TLD, they'd be in
trouble, which is yet another reason why pseudo-TLDs are a bad idea.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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