Re: the names that aren't DNS names problem, was Last Call: <draft-ietf-

On 26/07/2015 19:29, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Anyway, it's quite clear that ICANN's new delegation decisions
> circa 2001 rendered 1591 obsolete (though why ICANN never published
> updates to 1591 is a mystery to me).  
At least, an update rescinding the sentence "It is extremely unlikely that
any other TLDs will be created." But it was always clear that the IETF
kept the power of decision for assignments of domain names for technical
uses, which has nothing to do with string lengths.

     Brian