Re: Bare TLD resolutions

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

Fred,

On Sep 17, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <fred () cisco com> wrote:
> IMHO, since ICANN has created the situation, 

ICANN has created ill-specified domain search path heuristics and truly fascinating implementations of those 
heuristics?  ICANN has caused people to use non-allocated TLDs in environments where queries for those non-allocated 
TLDs hit the public Internet?  ICANN had made applications dependent upon receiving NXDOMAINs in a way that implies the 
root of the DNS should never be expanded (even for country codes or internationalized domain names)?

> the ball is in ICANN’s court to say how this works without disrupting name services.

Actually, name services aren’t disrupted. They are behaving exactly as specified in the DNS and as intended.  What is 
disrupted is (typically unknown) assumptions people have made regarding the composition of the top-level of the domain 
namespace. ICANN has been working to try to help mitigate the issue for some time now (initial discussions occurred in 
2010).

> Their ill-informed hipshot is not our emergency.

Hipshots are generally not a good idea, regardless of whether they are ill-informed. 

Whose emergency it is probably depends on how the delegation of new top-level domains impacts the operation of your 
network. To date, in cases where there was impact, the affected parties have worked to address the issues and (AFAIK) 
no emergencies have been experienced.

Regards,
-drc

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