On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:19 +0100, Hector Santos <hsantos(_at_)santronics(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Steve Atkins wrote:
Why not? and How so?
There is no conceivable way that can work in general.
By your reasoning, if presented with the hostname
sales.demon.co.uk you would query for sales.demon.co._ssp.uk.
That won't work. At all.
Actually, I think Hector is asking for sales.demon._ssp.co.uk to be
queried, but that is just as bad.
Why not?
So you are expecting Nominet (the managers of the uk TLD, and of co.uk,
org.uk, net.uk, etc under it) to administer the '_ssp.uk' domain on behalf
of Demon and all the 99999 other *.co.uk domains that have been registered
by the umpteen registrars licensed by Nominet?
The only way your scheme could possibly work is by invoking some Magic
that tells you to look at sales._ssp.demon.co.uk, so that Demon get to
manage their own policies. The only possible such Magic suggested so far
is Doug Otis's global registry of registrable domains, or maybe some
inventive examination of SOA records. Neither of these has net with much
approval in this WG.
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