[At-Large] News gTLDs and e-mail

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

John, Patrick and all,

  I have to agree with John here largely.  The IETF has largely been
less than well informed on a number of topics and issues for several
years.  However the IETF feels it is the standards organization that
does the informing.  So there is a bit of a cunundrem here.  Chicken or
egg, as it were...

John Levine wrote:

> > One possible issue may be with vanity gTLDs like apple, ebay etc. In
> > this context, an email address may just be user at tld
>
> But this isn't a new issue.  The address n at ai has been in use for a
> decade.
>
> I have to say that what particularly impressed me about the discussion on
> the IETF list was how utterly uninformed most of it was.  You didn't miss
> much.
>
> R's,
> John
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