A-label definition

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 08:52:52AM -0400,
 John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com> wrote 
 a message of 169 lines which said:

> Should IETF try to impose any requirements or limitations that would
> apply strictly to TLD labels, or should we decide that they are just
> "policy" and leave them to ICANN?

My view is not that ICANN is perfect and will do perfect things but
that:

1) TLD are not special. They are domains like other domains and I'm
very reluctant to make them a special case IN THE PROTOCOL.

2) Sure, ICANN can do bad things. But why the IETF would be better
here?