It appears that Eliot Lear <l...@lear.ch> said: >As a matter of practicality, a registry surely will be form. It is >simply a matter of whether the IANA will host it. If the IANA does not >host it, then by shifting it elsewhere this group is actually weakening >the IANA function, and that would be sad.
But trying to turn IANA and .alt into a junior version of ICANN would be much worse than sad. Anyone who has spent any time at all anywhere near ICANN will assure you that anything that looks even a little bit like a place where party A can exclude party B from using name C will attract a whole lot of attention from people you do not want to waste time with. I agree that nature abhors a vacuum, but for this particular vacuum, I would be delighted for the suckage to happen elsewhere. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
