GNUnet: IETF getting cold feet about P2P Names?
▻http://lwn.net/Articles/652406
The #GNUnet blog has this story ( ▻https://gnunet.org/ietf93dnsop ) about recent resistance from the #IETF toward the standardization of “special use” domain names (such as .onion or .gnu) “to reduce the likelihood of #ICANN accidentally creating a conflicting #gTLD assignment.”
Despite the provisions made in RFC 6761 (▻https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761) , the article notes that “there are also a number of DNS-centric people with a totally lack of alacrity in the dnsop WG to continue to stall the process by repeating arguments that were exchanged dozens of times in hundreds of e-mails.” Among those offering resistance, it reports, is Internet Architecture Board Chair Andrew Sullivan, who “says the IETF should not support special use domain names threatening the #DNS business model.”
