[Ietf-not43] off-list comments on requirements

[Eric A. Hall]

Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:

At the risk of proving that I'm not sure what you're going on about, I
will add the following comment:

> Is an inapplicability statement in plan to explain why jrandom-sld.tld
> can not use whois-not43?

> For what technical reason(s) will whois-not43 be incapable of providing
> service to the stld good-hygiene.new.net in its .good-hygiene tld
> representation?

AFAICT, there is no prohibition against that, nor would the wording
provide such a prohibition.

WRT my proposal in particular, something like co.uk. can have its own
servers as long as either (1) .uk issues referrals to that server for
queries about *.co.uk, or (2) a user points his client to the co.uk
servers as a default action, or (3) both.

IMO, restricting the *focus of concern* to the TLDs just means limiting
the scope of any mental bandwidth required to complete the task. It does
not preclude the participation or activies of the SLD community.

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