On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:25:58AM +0200, George Michaelson <ggm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 87 lines which said: > you can take the discussion here as indicating some loud voices for > "RFC 6761 was a mistake" It is the RFC we currently have. If we publish a RFC, use it for a big corporation whose software used .local, then close the door when free software developers want to do the same, we seriously undermine the credibility of IETF. You may like RFC 6761 or not, but saying that it must be used when you approve the proposal (.local) and suddenly that it must not be used if you don't like the current proposals is not a proper process. > so the -BIS document should consider one option being to say "we > made a mistake: we don't do this" The current "design team" (which did not produce yet a document besides monday's slides) does not reflect a consensus in the working group. It may be interesting to make a 6761bis but first, we need a consensus on what are the issues with 6761 and there is no such consensus. (The "design team" is too obviously an effort to "close the door" to future reservations of special-use TLDs.)