In message <p0623091dbf6713a37c2a@[10.20.30.249]>, Paul Hoffman writes: >At 11:58 AM -0400 10/3/05, Marshall Eubanks wrote: >>Wouldn't it at least make sense to require that the .gprs >>"pseudo-TLD" be reserved by IANA under Section 4 of RFC 2860 >>("technical work items" and >>"assignments of domain names for technical uses"), with the proviso that >>this TLD must not be resolved, except locally ? > >Absolutely not. There are already literally dozens (if not hundreds) >of such local tlds, some of which have the same names for different >purposes. > Yup. And if ICANN were to create a real .grps TLD, they'd be in trouble, which is yet another reason why pseudo-TLDs are a bad idea. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf