Re: [DNSOP] Fwd: Last Call: <draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-01.txt> (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



There are label segments that have semantics.

The "--" violation, prepended by something, "^xn", where "^" indicates a label boundary, to indicate a (the current) "IDN" processing.

Bytes within a label with values in excess of 127.

Off hand I can't think of anything else (that is intentional). Along the accidental sort-of-intended mumble access of forensic engineering are terminating (TLD) labels that brain-dead dead-ware interprets (if anyone living were to ask it) character representations of digit sequences as v4 addresses that currently has the pants scared off of ICANN and some folks from this side of the policy|tech divide.

Everything else seems to just be intentional carve outs of string spaces, suited, if there is a purpose, to the (defunct) User Services Area Directorate and its inform-the-community mission that "example" is not a means to repeat for the bazillionth time the flagship brand of Verisign.

.local has sufficient meaning to care about.

John Levin's draft covers some "don't pretend you're ARPA" ground, which is a useful restriction on what appears in the IANA root (and any other used by every user in China) and in SLDs, assuming that a means other than persuasion is available to inform both auctions-are-good gTLD operators and ICANN-is-irrelevant ccTLD operators that some restrictions are beneficial.

The chief defect of Stewart's draft is that it makes an analogy to the semantics of addressing, and postulates a pseudo-technical set of implementation responsibilities, and fails to mention ICANN, which has some coordination mission.

What isn't a layer 9 is worth documenting. What is at layer 9 should be documented as being at layer 9.

Eric
_______________________________________________
Ietf mailing list
Ietf@xxxxxxxx
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf


[Index of Archives]     [IETF Annoucements]     [IETF]     [IP Storage]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux SCTP]     [Linux Newbies]     [Fedora Users]