Re: the names that aren't DNS names problem, was Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt>

[Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 23, 2015, at 6:15 PM, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote:

So someone makes one of those
applications, moves a name through the ICANN process, and then
ICANN comes to the IETF and says "is it ok to approve and
delegate that name". 

No offense, John, but you appear to be erecting a straw man to argue with here.   Of course, the time to ask “does it make sense to allocate this name” is at the beginning of the process, not at the end of the process.