<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Andrew</div><div>That was just a quarry and not suggestion</div><div>Tks for your kind explanation again.</div><div>Regards</div><div>Kavouss </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-18 15:13 GMT+02:00 Andrew Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com" target="_blank">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 09:01:05AM +0200, Kavouss Arasteh wrote:<br>
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> Should there be a need to make ICANN responsible for an overall policy under which those individual entities coordinate the allocation and assignments of Names in the Domain Name System or not?<br>
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</span>Not only do I not think there should be a need, I don't think there<br>
should even be a desire. The DNS is designed not to have that single<br>
policy or any such sort of global rule. It would be contrary to the<br>
technical reality of the DNS to try to make such a rule.<br>
<br>
RFC 2181 points out quite clearly (even more clearly than RFC 1034 --<br>
see 2181 section 11) that names in the DNS have only restrictions<br>
about length. People have already implemented things that depend on<br>
that lack of restriction. Mostly, those implementations have been out<br>
in the "leaf nodes", because the hierarchical nature of the DNS makes<br>
that the wisest place to do such things. (Compare this reasoning with<br>
the IAB's guidance on internationalized labels -- see RFC 6912.)<br>
<br>
Everything we have ever learned about operations on the Internet tells<br>
us that centralised authority doesn't work. There's no reason to<br>
suppose this case is any different. The DNS was designed to dispose<br>
of a point of centralisation in the Internet -- one that caused real<br>
operational problems. It would be a massive retrograde step to try to<br>
re-impose such administrative centralisation again.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
A<br>
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--<br>
Andrew Sullivan<br>
<a href="mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com">ajs@anvilwalrusden.com</a><br>
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