The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The ALT Special Use Top Level Domain' (draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-25.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Domain Name System Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari and Robert Wilton. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld/ Technical Summary This document reserves a TLD label, "alt" to be used in non-DNS contexts. It also provides advice and guidance to developers developing alternative namespaces. Working Group Summary The WG consensus on the merits of the .alt proposal is reasonably strong. It deals with a fairly esoteric subject, so many participants in DNSOP didn't have strong views. No one thinks it's a perfect solution to the problem it describes. However, there's consensus that it's likely to help future protocol designers, potentially including some in the IETF and some outside. Regarding controversy, some participants felt it would not be appropriate for the IETF to consider a proposal that they believed was properly in the remit of ICANN as maintainer of the public DNS root zone. However, this was eventually solved by being appropriately restricted about the scope of the draft and the WG's job. The proposal relates only to protocols that are not the DNS, but use domain names; and there is a liaison relationship in place between the IETF and ICANN to handle any needed clarifications. The WG was only obligated to consider the proposal on the merits. During IETF LC, a liaison statement was sent to ICANN to inform them of the documents progress and to indicate how to provide comments during the last call process. After the IETF LC period had ended, a liaison response was received from ICANN, indicating that they appreciated the opportunity to comment on the document, but had no comments to make. Document Quality The document is short, well written, and likely pretty widely reviewed. The document quality is good. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Suzanne Woolf. The Responsible Area Director is Robert Wilton. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop