Re: last call on draft-ietf-dnsind-test-tlds-08.txt

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard@sexton.com>]

At 08:40 AM 5/4/98 -0400, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
>Bill,
>
>Do you want me to re-argue the whole matter again?
>
>On the way to draft version -07 plenty of people commented and the consensus
>was in favor.  (The -07 to -08 charnges were baed on feedback for IESG&IANA.)
>The draft would not have been forwarded to the IESG the first or second times
>if the the judegement of the WG chair were not that it was the consensus.  It
>is certainly your perogative to appeal this judegement if you wish but it is
>not clear to me that your message below is such an appeal. 
>
>I take your message to be part of the IETF tradition where those in the 
>minority continue to argue their case at every level.
>
>I believe the draft should progress, although possibly and Informational 
>rather than BCP.  I believe it is well within the power of the IESG to 
>change the document category.

That's in my view interprative. I'm not sure more than a dozen
or two people think it's a good idea. As Bill pointed out
what problem does it solve that example.com doesnt?

I can see publishing a BCP of "a bunch of us stick .xxyyzz in our
DNS and point everything to localhost" but I continue to feel
both test and example TLDs are not terribly usefull. No
matter what names are picked sombody else may have a real
use for them later, and with the impending IANA II and
a process for making new TLDs aroud the corner, I feel
they shoudl go that route like everybody else; there's
nothign particularly special about these, they're just
another TLD + charter.

Not all new TLDs are replacemetns for .com and strictly
for commercial use.

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