> >> No. 4 says "Strings must not cause any technical instability." which
> >> sounds exactly within IETF scope covers the gist of the technical
> >> aspects of the ietf list discussion.
>
> > We need "cannot be used in a manner that causes technical
> > instablitity. Known causes include, but are not limited
> > to, adding A, AAAA and MX records at the zone apex."
>
> As someone else pointed out, there are currently about two dozen TLDs with
> A or MX records at the apex. Some of them have been like that for many
> years, and as best I can tell, the Internet has not thereby collapsed.
How many label our hosts with two letter domain names?
Do you have any evidence that they have not caused problems?
I suspect that other sites that used the names just put up
with the pain of renamimg hosts along with the resultant
risk of email being misdirected.
> I think we all understand that the use of addresses like http://tld/ and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] may be flaky due to bugs in client software, but if someone
> wants
> to spend $100 grand on a TLD and install a flaky A or MX, why is that an
> urgent problem the IETF needs to solve rather than a private issue between
> the TLD and its registrants?
This sentence indicates that you fail to understand all of the
issues involved.
> Also keep in mind that most of those apex records are in ccTLDs over which
> ICANN and the IETF have no authority, so no matter what the we were to
> say, they're not going away.
> Regards,
> John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies
> ",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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