Re: [DNSOP] Public Suffix List

On 9/06/08 11:56 AM, "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 9, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
>>> I'm curious: have you consulted with the various TLD-related
>>> organizations (e.g., ccNSO, gNSO, CENTR, APTLD, AfTLD, LACTLD,
>>> etc.) on
>>> how to solve this problem?
>>
>> No. What do you think they'd say that hasn't been said in this thread
>> already?
>
> You're talking about essentially creating a registry of their registry
> policies and distributing it statically via your product.  I would
> imagine they might be interested and might even have some useful input
> to provide.  Some might even think it rude (even Microsoftian :-)) not
> to ask.  But perhaps I've been at layer 9 too long.

This thread sounds remarkably like deja vu. Indeed, the TLD community was
rather upset a few years ago by Mozilla taking unilateral action to
introduce a hard-coded white-list of acceptable IDN TLDs without prior
consultation. It is not unreasonable to think that doing so for a second
time, with the benefit of hindsight, would be received negatively.

I'd also speculate much of the pros and cons to this discussion are equally
applicable to the IDN whitelist. (
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html)

kim

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