John R Levine wrote:
I picked a few more nits and hope it's now ready to send down the
standards track.
Note that this is the I-D about the technical characteristics of DNSBLs,
not the BCP on how to manage them.
I think http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl-07 is good
and hope it won't be delayed further. However, I have a general
comment which may apply to it and/or the (yet unseen) companion
document mentioned in the intro.
The document doesn't plainly say that rDNS follows hierarchical
delegations while DNSBLs make independent statements about someone
else's IPs. This fact and its implications are so obvious among the
readers of this document, that the very explanation of rDNS is
confined between parentheses in an incidental sentence at the
beginning of section 2.1.
However, who are those readers? Specifically, what documents should a
politician or a judge read in order to become acquainted with DNSBLs?
The question is relevant because assigned IP addresses are somehow
part of a country's territory and IMHO should be administered as such.
(In this respect, I'm surprised that governments don't run their own
DNSxLs or, at least, endorse existing ones.)
Because of the importance of the Internet in general, I would suggest
that RFCs include a legal considerations section for aiding lawmakers,
where relevant. Am I out of line?
TYFYA
A
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