Bill:

"ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the private, non-government, nonprofit corporation with responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system (DNS) management, and root server system management functions." **




So, for ICANN, the corporation, blockchain is out of scope.

However, ICANN community members should know what's happening outside the ICANN bubble regarding blockchain and its probable (or unprobable) intersections with the DNS.
-ed

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:00 PM Bill Jouris via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:
The core of the question seems to be this: 
Is ICANN's remit just to administer the DNS? 
Or is the DNS merely the tool that ICANN uses, for the moment, to administer domain names -- domain names being our remit?  

If the former, then Blockchain Domains are out of ICANN's scope.  If the latter, they are in scope.  From this all else follows. 

Bill Jouris 


On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:08 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via CPWG
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