On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 01:45:11AM +0000, jonne.soini...@broadcom.com <jonne.soini...@broadcom.com> wrote a message of 88 lines which said:
> They are not DNS and not even specified in the IETF. They have taken > a design choice where they look like DNS No, that's not a correct description. These proposals use domain names (not things that "look like" domain names). Domain names are *older* than the DNS (see RFC 810 and many others). They can be resolved by several protocols (DNS, Bonjour, /etc/hosts, LDAP, whatever). It is perfectly sensible to use domain names for new protocols. > you want a TLD you go to ICANN. Regardless of what people think of > that process, this is the process we have created already a long > time ago If "we" is the US governement, the sentence is true. Otherwise, no, I had no part in the ICANN creation. I remember a discussion with Stuart Cheshire where he explained that IETF, not ICANN, created the entire name space, since it created the rules, and therefore has rights above those of ICANN. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
