Re: comments on draft-eastlake-cturi-01.txt

While it seems likely that .arpa can be preserved exclusively for
protocol parameter uses, the control of all other .* has passed to
ICANN except maybe contries have something to say about their country
codes except maybe that the US Department of Commerce asserts ultimate
veto authority over any changes to the root zone...

In any case, it is not clear that an I-D/RFC cuts any ice for *.org
these days.  You could probably use that mechansim to assign iana.arpa
but the hardwiring of this protocol parameter mapping to and
organization which happens at any particular future time to be IANA is
one of the things that I find objectionable.

Donald

From:  "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
Message-Id:  <4.2.0.58.J.20010121162905.05baba20@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>
Date:  Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:30:37 +0900
To:  "Larry Masinter" <masinter@Adobe.COM>,
            "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>,
            "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
Cc:  <uri@w3.org>, "Graham Klyne" <GK@ninebynine.org>,
            "Michael Mealling" <michaelm@netsol.com>,
            "Ted Hardie" <hardie@equinix.com>
In-Reply-To:  <NDBBKEBDLFENBJCGFOIJEEGPEEAA.masinter@adobe.com>
References:  <B68FC4AF.20A2C%aswartz@swartzfam.com>

>At 01/01/20 22:14 -0800, Larry Masinter wrote:
>>That you, Aaron Swartz, do not see the need to use anything
>>other than "http://www.iana.org", which has sufficient
>>stability for your own purposes, doesn't mean that it will
>>meet the needs of everyone else.
>
>Well, there are other solutions, in the middle, e.g.
>writing an I-D assigning iana.org to IANA forever,
>or giving IANA an iana.arpa domain.
>
>Regards,   Martin.

Received on Sunday, 21 January 2001 22:27:29 UTC