All,

 

I thought I would forward this new Informational RFC put out by two employees working in ICANN’s OCTO group.

 

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-arends-private-use-tld/?include_text=1

 

This proposed informational draft is not as technical as most of them.  In fact, I would argue that although this has been filed to be dealt with at the IETF level, it really should be dealt with within ICANN’s Multi-stakeholder processes as opposed to the IETF.  It relates to a topic we have discussed before – Special Use Domains. 

 

In this draft, the authors argue that there should be strings that are reserved at the top level to allow entities to create private internets.  There are a bunch of reasons to do this and some of them are articulated in the draft.  I am not commenting on the merits of the RFC and not making an argument for or against. 

 

However, this is the type of thing I would think that the ICANN Community should have the ability to influence as opposed to circumventing the ICANN multi-stakeholder processes by going to the IETF to get these reserved as “special use” domains.  Remember, we are recommending that Special Use domains that go through the IETF should be accounted for by being reserved from delegation by ICANN. Previously special use domains that were reserved had a particular technical purpose, but this one doesn’t seem to fall into that category.

 

Although we have completed our section on Special Use domains, I wanted to bring this to everyone’s attention in case they had some thoughts.

 

 

 

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