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Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
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dnsop@cafax.se, brunner@nic-naa.net
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Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Date:
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:25:58 -0400
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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-main-sane-tld-00.txt
Zefram, The mechanism complined of is policy-based transfer. The depricated policy is the contention resolution based upon other-than temporal ordering, aka "first-come, first-served". The claim is that the mechanism results in impersistence of name-to-address mappings. This is true. The same property arises from finite-term fee-based allocation. One mechanism for obtaining an unencumbered namespace is the unlikely hyphen rule, the "bq--" of IDN fame, for some values of "b" and "q". If there was a need for a namespace with interesting properties, e.g., highly impersistant "twinkling", N-to-M mappings, where N or M or both are integers greater than one, or, just to pick an example we should have tried for the purpose of putting some data rather than rhetoric on the IDN plate, with the set of characters used for name labels expanded (or contracted), ... AND that property was only usefully available in a TLD, then it looks like a PSO issue, not an ICANN issue, and an IETF issue, not an ETSI/W3C/ITU issue. Maybe. What you've got isn't that. Your draft revisits familiar terrain, or terrain that a lot of people have bumped across. In the interests of full disclosure, a lot of people seem to find what I do and write horribly offensive. I don't mean to be. I work for NeuStar, a parent company of NeuLevel, the dotBIZ gTLD operator, and I do IETF and did ICANN related "stuff" for NeuStar. I've been involved with the mess since about 1996. I personally think "first-come, first-served" really is early-adopter preference. As technology adoption is a function of access to capital, it favors those with earliest access to capital. This view is shared by my tribe, and by all of the tribal governments who's position on this is known to me, and by some "national" governments, one of who's position papers I'm editing today. If you really think there's a there "there", try the security directorate. Eric P.S. Kudus to Ms. Stein, of Oakland.