[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] [renamed] Key early questions

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 03:46:59PM -0400, James Galvin wrote:
> However, it does mean that we have to define “infrastructure”.  I’m hopeful
> there’s a baseline for which we could get broad agreement.

If other people on the Internet can initiate connections toward you in
the normal operation of the service using the facility, you are
operating Internet infrastructure.

> Unfortunately, in my experience, we do not have broad agreement on whether
> having a domain name means you are part of the Internet infrastructure.

You are because people will perform DNS lookups for that domain, and
thereby be covered under the above ostensive definition.  I'd be
interested in seeing some sort of argument as to how domain names are
not part of the Internet infrastructure.

Best regards,

A

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