GNUnet: IETF getting cold feet about P2P Names?

The GNUnet blog has thisstory about recent resistance from the IETF toward thestandardization of "special use" domain names (such as .onion or.gnu) "to reduce the likelihood of ICANN accidentally creating aconflicting gTLD assignment."

Despite the provisions made in RFC 6761, the articlenotes that "there are also a number of DNS-centric people with atotally lack of alacrity in the dnsop WG to continue to stall theprocess by repeating arguments that were exchanged dozens of times inhundreds of e-mails." Among those offering resistance, itreports, is Internet Architecture Board Chair Andrew Sullivan, who"says the IETF should not support special use domain namesthreatening the DNS business model."