Mozilla and dotless domains

Gervase Markham <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:20:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ICANN are running a consultation on the wisdom or otherwise of 
permitting A (and AAAA) records at the top level of the DNS:

 
https://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/sac053-dotless-domains-24aug12-en.htm

I propose that Mozilla submit comments saying what a terrible idea this 
is. Something along these lines:
http://forum.icann.org/lists/sac053-dotless-domains/msg00029.html

Is anyone interested in drafting something, perhaps taking inspiration 
from comments submitted by others? I would expect it to cover the 
unreliability and security concerns arising from the conflict with the 
use of dotless names as internal names. For bonus points, talk about the 
problems with creating TLS certificates for dotless names.

Gerv