John, technically ICANN is only really in charge of the gTLD name space as the ccTLD one depends on the ISO 2 letter alpha code elements over which ICANN has no control.
el On 2020-06-14 02:03 , John Levine wrote: > In article <8bf10121-cf4b-4341-bc40-f427a8f4b...@apnic.net> you write: >> This is likely to be a Fine Proposal, worthy of serious >> consideration, but the venue where such topics should be considered >> is elsewhere, in my view. I realise that explicitly opposing such WG >> calls for adoption is tantamount to heresy in today’s IETF, but >> nevertheless I must record my opposition to adoption. > > Agreed. The proposal is technically fine but for better or worse, > ICANN is in charge of the TLD namespace these days. > > If something else like .onion that has a technical aspect comes along, > we can probably deal with that, with ICANN's tacit cooperation, but I > wouldn't push it. > > R's, > JOhn [...] -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@lisse.na / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop