[dns-operations] First new gTLD using ICANN's "Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework"

[Patrik Fältström]

On 28 aug 2014, at 22:12, Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:50 PM, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> At 05:38 28-08-2014, Chris Thompson wrote:
>>> 
>>> The gTLD "otsuka", created sometime in the last 24 hours, appears to be
>>> the
>>> first to use the wildcards described at
>> 
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> 
>>> What do people think about this business? Is anyone taking specific
>>> precautions
>>> to detect attempts to connect to 127.0.53.53?
>> 
>> 
>> I presume that the people who invented this stuff know what they are doing.
> 
> Mwahahahahahhah.... hahhhahaha.... teehee...
> 
> Thanks, I needed that.

Thanks Warren, this made me smile... ;-)

For people not aware, the discussion inside ICANN on this matter has been...hmm...complicated.

What is deployed is the result of a discussion inside ICANN that you can find one core report here:

<https://www.icann.org/public-comments/name-collision-2014-02-26-en>

See for example Section 2.3 and Appendix A in SAC066:

<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-066-en.pdf>

   Patrik Fältström
   SSAC Chair

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 195 bytes
Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
URL: <https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/attachments/20140829/ea1cd927/attachment.sig>