RE: About .eu - Was: Re: [ga] Meeting on the creation of .EU TLD

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.net>]

At 05:19 PM 3/19/00 -0800, William X. Walsh wrote:

You'll shoot yourself in the foot arguing against yourself. :-)

IANA had the authority to introduce new TLDs into the root, as evidenced by 
the introduction of ccTLDs during the same time period. This was part of 
their NSF contract. At the time, IANA was in the process of defining a new 
process (which is now ICANN) to bring competition to NSI, and so new iTLD 
applications were solicited during 1995/1996 and accepted by IANA under the 
RFC1591 guidelines. The domain name template that InterNIC/NSI used in 
those days had the provision for accepting *ALL* TLDs, and this was the 
vehicle specified by IANA. These are the historical facts, though there are 
a number of reasons why these applications have not been processed. This 
supports your argument to the .EU folks.

Unfortunately you equate Joe Baptista with IANA which is a completely 
nonsensical thing to do, and the reference is a red herring. Anyone can 
create a TLD that will resolve on their own DNS servers. Many private 
companies (including Sun) do this behind their firewalls for their Intranet 
as part of their security posture (I've done it for a DoD command). If Joe 
wants to collect TLDs for use on his servers why not let him? If other 
folks want to query his servers, why should you interfere? DNS is supposed 
to be a democracy with the end-user having the vote.

>On 20-Mar-2000 Simon Higgs wrote:
> > Especially when there has always been a published process, and IANA have
> > acknowledged receipt of the earliest applications. See RFC1591. Section
> > 3.  The Administration of Delegated Domains
>
>IANA lacked the authority to add new gTLDs and hence any such applications are
>not valid.  The NSF made it very clear that IANA did not have the authority to
>grant or create new Top level domains.  The IANA assumed it had that authority
>(hoped?) but their "process" is no better than Joe Baptista saying you can
>create a new TLD simply by emailing him an "application" since they lacked the
>proper authority to engage in that activity.


Best Regards,

Simon

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