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Re: Fw: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02.txt

2005-03-05 05:44:14
* Keith Moore:

i think this document is just silly.  and highly subjective.  there is
no way to edit it to correct its problems -- it should just quietly
die. IAB should preserve its relevance and integrity by limiting its
focus to objective technical matters (such as the excellent work on
wildcards back when COM and NET each had wildcards), rather than fluff
like this.

I think the intent of the document is timely and appropriate, though I
think it needs another rev before publication.  Mostly it could be
condensed to:

"automata should not make any assumptions about the meaning of a domain
name"

I think this summary is misleading, given that the document is silent
on a very important issue: standards which attach special semantics to
parts of the DNS tree.  By "special semantics" I mean special stub
resolver or resolver which is triggered by the appearance of some
magic labels or domain names, indepedent of actual zone data.  (An
extreme example: "Resolvers MUST return the address 192.0.2.1 for IN A
queries of the name www.example.com.")

This is extremely annoying for those who use Internet technology on
private networks.  Publishing such a document and not addressing this
class of mistakes could mean that the IAB even endorses such poor
standards.

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