Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Christian Huitema
On 8/8/2022 2:24 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Vittorio Bertola said: 1) Why should these people get for free something which everybody else is required to pay $200'000 for? Remember that $200K is just the starting point. Google paid $25M for .APP, GMO paid $41M for .SHOP and Veri

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread John Levine
It appears that Vittorio Bertola said: >1) Why should these people get for free something which everybody else is >required to pay $200'000 for? Remember that $200K is just the starting point. Google paid $25M for .APP, GMO paid $41M for .SHOP and Verisign paid $135M for .WEB. In my experience

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 08/08/2022 14.53, Jim Reid wrote: How about having an IANA registry of these experimental TLDs? Those strings don’t go in the root. And they don't get added to the IETF’s special use list and ICANN is still free to create these TLDs if/when they decide to create more. This hypothetical IANA

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Paul Vixie
Paul Hoffman wrote on 2022-08-08 06:31: On Aug 8, 2022, at 3:16 AM, Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear) wrote: ... draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld and SAC113 would give the authors of the draft you are considering an easy method to do the type of naming they talk about in their draft.

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 8 Aug 2022, John R Levine wrote: It is not a viable choice outside of a few nerds who are fully capable of getting a browser plug-in to handle gns:// URIs. Which would still allow all DNS parsing libraries to be used on the names. Sufficiently motivated people seem able to install

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Aug 8, 2022, at 3:16 AM, Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear) wrote: > The community has more choices than Christian indicated. One is that “You” > carve out some space for namespaces like GNS, just as George suggested. > Warren's draft seems to comport itself to contours of that c

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread John R Levine
It is not a viable choice outside of a few nerds who are fully capable of getting a browser plug-in to handle gns:// URIs. Which would still allow all DNS parsing libraries to be used on the names. Sufficiently motivated people seem able to install whatever it is you need to browse through To

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Jim Reid
> On 8 Aug 2022, at 11:16, Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear) > wrote: > > I caution against those approaches that would set such a high bar that they > would require researchers to fork out hundreds of thousands of dollars on > application fees alone plus who knows how much else fo

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Paul Wouters
On Aug 8, 2022, at 06:16, Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear) wrote: > > Ease of deployment: ability to use whatever application and OS interfaces > such as nsswitch.conf, a plugin in a browser, etc. The only new use of nsswitch for the “hosts” entry within the last 20 years that I k

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Paul Wouters
On Aug 8, 2022, at 02:08, Christian Huitema wrote: > >  > > The name space is "almost" unitary. People deploy things like domain suffix > search lists so that users can type "mailserver" and arrive at > "mailserver.corp.example.com" -- That use is basically dead. It might sort of work at an

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Vittorio Bertola
> Il 08/08/2022 12:16 CEST Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear) > ha scritto: > > I caution against those approaches that would set such a high bar that they > would require researchers to fork out hundreds of thousands of dollars on > application fees alone plus who knows how much e

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear)
Hi Joe, Dave, Christian, John, George, and others, Thank you for taking the volume down a notch.  It is much appreciated. The ISE is looking for a way to have the work of the GNS published such that I am comfortable that if it achieves wild success (RFC 5218), its use is reasonably safe.  I us

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-08 Thread Joe Abley
On Aug 8, 2022, at 08:08, Christian Huitema wrote: > The name space is "almost" unitary. People deploy things like domain suffix > search lists so that users can type "mailserver" and arrive at > "mailserver.corp.example.com" -- or something else, depending where they > started for. There are

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-07 Thread Christian Huitema
On 8/7/2022 9:17 PM, George Michaelson wrote: Not trying to say you're wrong, I just observe that if there is an omnibar, and people type names into it, then there is a latent problem of ordering lookup, and deciding, in names and more than one namespace. Pretty much all the hard stuff stems f

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-07 Thread George Michaelson
Not trying to say you're wrong, I just observe that if there is an omnibar, and people type names into it, then there is a latent problem of ordering lookup, and deciding, in names and more than one namespace. Pretty much all the hard stuff stems from there IMO. Names are hard. I think belief in

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-07 Thread John Levine
It appears that Christian Huitema said: >AFAIK, the consequences would be minimal, as there is approximately zero >existing use of ".test" -- in constrast to say, ".local" or ".internal", >which both have very significant usage. Plus, whatever user they are >already warned. If someone wants t

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-07 Thread Christian Huitema
On 8/7/2022 5:39 PM, George Michaelson wrote: In a similar spirit to avoiding "be damned" in a doc, I think referring to choice 3 as "squatting" is probably both truthful/accurate, and regrettable. We probably shouldn't formally document (ab)use of a space this way without more considered langu

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-07 Thread George Michaelson
In a similar spirit to avoiding "be damned" in a doc, I think referring to choice 3 as "squatting" is probably both truthful/accurate, and regrettable. We probably shouldn't formally document (ab)use of a space this way without more considered language and text around what it implies. I thought yo

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-07 Thread Christian Huitema
On 8/4/2022 1:52 PM, Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear) wrote: Dave, To answer the question, “What is the ISE process?”: On 04.08.22 21:28, David Conrad wrote: Martin, [...] I see 4 options: 1) Wait for ICANN to fix their processes 2) Wait for the IETF to figure out whether/how t

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-04 Thread Independent Submissions Editor (Eliot Lear)
Dave, To answer the question, “What is the ISE process?”: On 04.08.22 21:28, David Conrad wrote: Martin, [...] I see 4 options: 1) Wait for ICANN to fix their processes 2) Wait for the IETF to figure out whether/how to reopen the “Special Use Domains” registry 3) Try to bypass (1) and/or (

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-04 Thread Schanzenbach, Martin
> On 4. Aug 2022, at 21:28, David Conrad wrote: > > Martin, > Hi David, > On Aug 4, 2022, at 12:01 PM, Schanzenbach, Martin > wrote: >> But the resolution protocol is technology-neutral. I invite you to re-read >> the draft. We are not proposing a namespace. > > Right. If I understand co

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-04 Thread David Conrad
Martin, On Aug 4, 2022, at 12:01 PM, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote: > But the resolution protocol is technology-neutral. I invite you to re-read > the draft. We are not proposing a namespace. Right. If I understand correctly, you are proposing to use the existing domain name namespace, and that’

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-04 Thread Schanzenbach, Martin
> On 4. Aug 2022, at 18:01, Schanzenbach, Martin > wrote: > > > >> On 4. Aug 2022, at 16:17, Vittorio Bertola >> wrote: >> >>> Il 04/08/2022 14:37 CEST Schanzenbach, Martin ha >>> scritto: >>> >>> You are trying to kill it using, what, political arguments? >> >> Yes. There is nothing

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-04 Thread Schanzenbach, Martin
> On 4. Aug 2022, at 16:17, Vittorio Bertola > wrote: > >> Il 04/08/2022 14:37 CEST Schanzenbach, Martin ha >> scritto: >> >> You are trying to kill it using, what, political arguments? > > Yes. There is nothing technical in this discussion. We are not arguing over > wire formats or algor

Re: [DNSOP] [EXT] Re: draft-schanzen-gns and draft-ietf-dns-alt-tld

2022-08-04 Thread Vittorio Bertola
> Il 04/08/2022 14:37 CEST Schanzenbach, Martin ha > scritto: > > You are trying to kill it using, what, political arguments? Yes. There is nothing technical in this discussion. We are not arguing over wire formats or algorithms, we are arguing about names and ways to gain control over them,