On Nov 26, 2019, at 12:52 PM, Ted Lemon <mel...@fugue.com> wrote:
> It might be worth clarifying what the actual scope of this proposal is.  I 
> think that the idea is to say “look, if you want to use a private name, these 
> names are known to be safe.”   It’s not to say “the IETF hereby declares that 
> the following names are safe,” but rather “the IETF is reporting that these 
> names have been declared safe by this other SDO.”
> 
> The point of making this recommendation is that we know that people will have 
> reasons to privately use domains that have not been allocated to them out of 
> the global namespace, and we’ve seen the problems that such private 
> allocations cause when they are done in an unsafe manner.  The advice here is 
> on how to avoid making that mistake.   It’s not a TLD allocation by IETF: 
> those TLDs are already effectively allocated.
> 
> Is that about right?

Exactly (at least from my perspective).

Regards,
-drc

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