John and all, You would think that indeed new registries could do their own due diligence. But of course experience clearly shows that they rarely do. Ergo, diligence of users and perhaps the ALAC is necessary. Secondly, as ICANN doesn't do the oversight it should do, especially given the fact that they can't even keep track of their own Domain Names as was reported earlier this past week, someone needs to either fill in the gaps in oversight, or ICANN needs to step up much better than they have been doing over the past 9+ years. I can't see that how much $$ a proposed registry puts up really has anything what so ever to do with their creditability, after all any drug dealer or cartel can back any proposal with $$ easy enough. So your logic as far as price for a gTLD has little to do with doing good due diligence. John Levine wrote:
So, do I understand correctly that, because one obscure non-RFC compliant e-mail address has been out there for a decade this is enough of a test to guarantee, there will be no issues with the current market leading MUAs and MTAs (and legacy ones) ?
There will certainly be issues with MTAs and MUAs, since there are plenty of them that implicitly or explicitly assume that every domain name contains a dot.
What we do know is that the existence of such addresses doesn't cause any global problems. Why does this issue need the ALAC's limited time, rather than being just one more minor question for the purchasers of new TLDs to deal with? If they'll be spending $100K or more on their new domain, I think it's reasonable to assume that they can do their own due diligence.
R's, John
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