On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 02:05:23PM +0200, David Conrad <drc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 65 lines which said: > RFC 6761 has created a mechanism to describe those uses, but did not > provide any criteria by which a decision would be made as to whether > the domain names would be reserved for that use Which was may be wise since trying to find such criteria will certainly prove very difficult. Apparently, there was only two suggested, the size of the installed base, and the leaks to the USG root. The first one contradicts the very common statement that P2P developers should humbly ask for a special-use TLD *before* deploying their software. It is also a difficult criterium for software which claims to provide privacy and therefore have difficulties computing statistics. The second criterium, leaks to the root, is too easy to forge.