On Jul 24, 2015, at 3:21 AM, David Conrad <drc(_at_)virtualized(_dot_)org>
wrote:
Yep. In addition, it would probably result in the non-trivial political and
economic forces endemic to ICANN interested in blocking a name (for whatever
reason) redirecting their energies to the IESG (or whoever the IETF decides
"we" are). After all, if they can't legitimately block a name through the
ICANN processes, they'd get one last bite at the apple at the IETF.
Yup, and after I went to bed last night I realized that the problem with asking
the IETF first is that we take forever to decide anything, and the IESG
shouldn’t be held responsible for that. The bottom line is that this is a
really hard problem to solve. It may be that RFC 6761 got it as right as we
can manage under the circumstances.