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

On 26 Jul 2015, at 16:34, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> 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."
There are more clarifications IETF could make, as pointed out in for example 
the CWG work. See updates and clarifications made in RFC 3152, RFC 4159 and 
others -- including the letter exchange between Karen Rose and Luis Touton that 
can be found in Appendix A in RFC 3172.

> 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.
Yes.

   Patrik

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