[gtld-tech] Delegated strings: WHOIS & SLAs...

[Hugo Salgado]

On 11/21/2013 07:33 AM, Jay Daley wrote:
> 
> On 21/11/2013, at 6:13 am, Gavin Brown <gavin.brown at centralnic.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 20/11/2013 23:00, John Levine wrote:
>>>> Yep - you're only allowed SOA, apex NS, glue, DNSSEC records and
>>>> delegations - nothing else.
>>>
>>> That's at the apex of the TLD.
>>>
>>> By my count _whois._tcp.tld is two levels down.
>>
>> _tcp.tld could not be delegated as "_tcp" is not permissable as a
>> delegation.
> 
> Unless ICANN has redefined the word 'delegation' this is not a delegation as there are no NS records for _tcp.
> 
>> The standard Appendix A in the gTLD Registry Agreement states that other
>> records can be added, once an RSEP evaluation has taken place "to
>> determine whether the service would create a risk of a meaningful
>> adverse impact on security or stability of the DNS".
> 
> That seems sensible but I wonder if it could be short cut on the basis that 20 or so TLDs including some of the largest already have this record and the world has not ended?
> 

Not to mention the >60 TLDs with TXTs, the most popular
one being the "generation time" of the zone.

Hugo