On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:25:58AM +0200,
George Michaelson <ggm(_at_)algebras(_dot_)org> wrote
a message of 87 lines which said:
you can take the discussion here as indicating some loud voices for
"RFC 6761 was a mistake"
It is the RFC we currently have. If we publish a RFC, use it for a big
corporation whose software used .local, then close the door when free
software developers want to do the same, we seriously undermine the
credibility of IETF.
You may like RFC 6761 or not, but saying that it must be used when you
approve the proposal (.local) and suddenly that it must not be used if
you don't like the current proposals is not a proper process.
so the -BIS document should consider one option being to say "we
made a mistake: we don't do this"
The current "design team" (which did not produce yet a document
besides monday's slides) does not reflect a consensus in the working
group.
It may be interesting to make a 6761bis but first, we need a consensus
on what are the issues with 6761 and there is no such consensus. (The
"design team" is too obviously an effort to "close the door" to future
reservations of special-use TLDs.)