Quote from the article: Among the 26 pages of proposed changes [PDF] to the contract signed by the operators of the internet's top-level domains, the following

Quote from the article: Among the 26 pages of proposed changes [PDF] to the contract signed by the operators of the internet's top-level domains, the following language was inserted: If Registry Operator wishes to place any DNS resource record type or class into its TLD DNS service (other than those listed in Sections 1.1 or 1.2 above), it must describe in detail its proposal and submit a Registry Services Evaluation Process (RSEP) request. That of course means nothing to anyone but a small group of DNS policy folk but it was enough to prompt an official rebuke from the security and stability advisory committee (SSAC) of DNS overseer ICANN, which published a strongly worded advisory calling for the text to be deleted. "The possible use of the RSEP process risks delegating any future evaluation of registry proposals on dotless domains to ICANN staff, effectively circumventing the informed NGPC Board resolution to prohibit dotless domains," the advisory [PDF] reads in part. ========== I still don't understand what's going on here, but it seems like a dirty trick by Google. Do no evil? Glad it failed!