Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > I hope they've considered what will happen if you go to
> > http://localhost/ or
> > http://pcname/
> >
> > Is that the local networks pcname, or the gTld pcname?
> > Are we going to have to start using a specially reserved .local gTld?
>
> No, of *course* ICANN didn't give any engineering thought to it.  Cause the
> engineers?  Are all *here*.

Perhaps relevant: http://www.icann.org/en/committees/security/sac045.pdf

> And David Conrad's apparently the only guy who's heard about it.  :-)

When I used to go to ICANN meetings (haven't been to one in years), there were always a number of folks from the RIR 
community there, which at least in the ARIN region, tends to have non-trivial intersection with the NANOG community.  I 
would be quite surprised if I was "the only guy who's heard about it".

Regards,
-drc