[cabfpub] ICANN Presentation on Internal Names

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Wed Jul 24 08:52:20 MST 2013


On 21/07/13 23:13, Ben Wilson wrote:
> There have been some suggestions over the past few years, particularly
> within the IETF, to in fact permanently reserve some of the strings to
> prevent the name collisions we’ve been talking about from happening.  
> That’s a pretty radical step to take, and again, these are options-- not
> necessarily things that anyone is going to do, and in particular, we
> don’t, as a result of our study, explicitly recommend that ICANN or
> anyone else follow one of these options. 

Does anyone know why Lyman thinks, and assumes, that reserving some
names is a "pretty radical step"?

It seems to be like a pretty obvious step that should have been done
right at the start of the process...

Gerv



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