Re: way out of the DNS problems? (former Re: delegation mechanism, Re: Trees have one root)
2002-08-01 18:53:35
On 23:17 01/08/02, John C Klensin said:
--On Thursday, 01 August, 2002 22:20 +0200 Bruce Campbell
<bruce(_dot_)campbell(_at_)ripe(_dot_)net> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
>> I am sorry to repeat it (and I will try not to say it too
>> many times again): the terms of the ".arpa" sub global
>> namespace delegation are described in RFC 920 by Jon Postel
>> himself.
>
> Request For Comment number 920 is simply a now historic record
> of a policy statement between the IAB and the DARPA in 1984
> regarding establishment of Top Level Domains, and had a focus
> predominately on USA-based organisations.
Bruce perfectly rendered what I said and what is the RFC 920: an historic
record of what had been agreed or contracted with "other systems" (cf. RFC
921).
The only interest if that it puts that contracts on the records: WorldCom
is not able to find back - up to now - the contract which registered
"arapa" with the FCC licensed value added carrier Tymnet. It is true it was
for the US namespace but through the FCC licensed IRCs' interconnect
agreements in the common frame of the ITU treaties, it was into
tInternational namspace.
However, this whole thread is related to the IETF/ICANN position IRT the
alt(sic)root. So, to the ICP-3 doctrine which claims its legitimacy from
being permanent since a starting point : "The DNS was originally deployed
in the mid-1980s" with a link to the RFC 921. RFC 921 describes the DNS
implementation according to the RFC 920 rules description.
I have no position on a matter I consider as totally outdated. But I
observe that today everything is hampered at the DNSO and at the IETF (in
spite of efforts of many of who you are a leading figure) due to a
confusion between the DNS system and the public domain it applies to.
So I say:
- either we want to be religious about it like ICP-3, then we must accept
that ICANN's lelgtimacy comes from the registration of the ".arpa" domain
under standard FCC terms with the rights and constraints reported in RFC
920. This will have some impacts on ccTLD, NSI contract and willl gives
different legitimacies to the at(sic)root.
- or (as Bruce calls for it) we drop all this blablabla and we start
talking about serious technical issues (my solution 4) through a clean
sheet analysis of the technical problems at hand. I only suggest we do not
forget all this, to not repeat the same mistake of forgetting about ITU
world. As a network we are more concerned by ITU than by WIPO!
I am interested in DNS.2, DNS+ and the service of the users service. Not in
old disputes. Am I wrong?
>...
Two additions to Bruce's comments...
(i) While I was not involved in the discussions leading up to, or
surrounding, RFC 920, I do have some recollections from earlier and
subsequent periods. Given those recollections, and what 920 actually
says, I find it fairly difficult to believe that any part of that RFC was
motivated by a name-space-division agreement between Jon and/or the
ICCB/IAB and a collection of operators of systems based on OSI or other
protocols.
Who talks about OSI and protocols? Let have fun at "com/net" coined as a
joke in Heindhoven (NL) to be NSI's billions :-)
We talk about the monthly bill of the "arpa" account - under FCC approved
rates - which included for free my support of a few British, Argentinean or
Japanese people wanting to access "the nets" though their local data service.
But we are also talking of some, puting things in jeopardy on silly
pretensions. We are blocked for 2 years for some projects in Europe because
ICANN wants to "negotiate" the 100 chars of ".eu" in the master file.
I am very polite and patient, but this is crazy, all the more when you know
the joke the use of ISO 3166 2 letters codes comes from...
I hope that Joyce will comment on her recollections when she considers
that appropriate.
(ii) As a DNS name allocation policy document, RFC 920 was effectively
superceded by RFC 1591.
Respectfully, this is no UDRP. The good faith in managing "arpa" is not
questioned. The point is just that a domain name has been rgeistered, not
the whole registry purchased. It was a license, not the code..
I was involved in the formulation and writing of 1591, as were several
people who I assume follow this list. I am certain that there were no
discussions during that process about any commitments to name space
constraints or divisions as the result of prior international agreements.
I know... a very good RFC for the network, but which left ccTLDs and Govs
without common guidelines. This disinterest is usual with value added
customers: you do not commit to any agreement, you respect the way the
treaties and regulating bodies have established. But when you grow you
happen to share in this.
This is what ICANN tries to sort now. Mike Robert's letter to Govs, GAC
involvement, call of Stuart Lynn, ITU increasing involvement, China, EU,
today's protestation to the DoC.
But IMHO this is not IETF cup of tea anymore?
jfc
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