On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 05:54:41PM -0700,
David Conrad <drc(_at_)virtualized(_dot_)org> wrote
a message of 41 lines which said:
I'm suggesting it would be helpful if there were an RFC directing
IANA to establish a registry that contains both labels and rules
(e.g, no all-numeric strings, no strings that start with 0x and
contain hexadecimal values, the string 'xn--', the 2606 strings,
etc.) that specify what cannot be placed into the root zone.
Would there be the downside to this?
There is one (regarding rules, not regarding labels): a TLD is a
domain like any other. It has nothing special, technically
speaking. Since IETF is supposed to work in the field of technology,
not politics, I would object to any registry that lays down special
rules for TLDs, besides the normal RFC 1034/1123/2181 rules (which
apply to every domain).
Reserving TLDs (like ".example") is a different thing: we don't create
new rules, we just use our privilege to get a TLD without paying
100,000 US $ to ICANN.
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