Re: [ga-roots] Proposed Wording Changes OR Can We Get Back on Track Perhaps?

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

Patrick,

>"ICANN adopts compliance with the relevant DNS standards as a general
>principle.  It recognises that there is a likelihood of collision and/or
>confusion when root operators do not comply with RFC 1591 which suggests
>that there should be a "unique root zone*.  ICANN will therefore adopt
>methods and measures to foster co-operation and compliance within the
>industry."

This is the applicable part of RFC1591:

      This means that the same rules are applied to all requests, all
      requests must be processed in a non-discriminatory fashion, and
      academic and commercial (and other) users are treated on an equal
      basis.
      [...]
      There are no requirements on subdomains of top-level domains
      beyond the requirements on higher-level domains themselves. That
      is, the requirements in this memo are applied recursively.
                                                              - RFC1591

"All requests" means exactly that - "all requests". It's a central point of 
failure for ICANN. Just like it was for the gTLD-MOU. Draft Postel 
understood it.

Is this the part you are referring to?



Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

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