On 07/14/2013 10:05 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
At 06:53 14-07-2013, Yoav Nir wrote:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-dotless-domains-00
That memo discusses about the case of the dotless domains in terms of
the technical standards. Comments are welcome.
Interesting, but pardon my being blunt, it does not seem to cover any
new ground. You did say one useful thing:
IETF specifications usually provide guidance to ensure interoperability.
Whether dotless domains are harmful or not is a policy matter.
At 13:11 13-07-2013, Ofer Inbar wrote:
What this brings to mind is that we used to have implicit DNS domain
search in the early days of DNS. When edu.com accidentally hijacked
a huge chunk of the Internet, most of the net very quickly got rid of
implicit search, and we got the explicit DNS search feature that many
people are discussing now.
Yes.
Can you (or Ofer) define how you're using the terms "explicit" and
"implicit" in terms of DNS search, and what their relevance is to the
topic of dotless domains? And no, I'm not being snarky, I think part of
the problem here is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the vast
majority of hosts are configured currently.
If some new TLD gets used in a dotless fashion in a way that truly
does cause major trouble, I expect we'll see sites all over the net
quickly deploying DNS resolvers that discard A, AAAA, or MX records
at the top level, to protect their users.
There is already deployed code to do that.
True, for better or worse. :) BIND's implementation also starts off
with a reasonable default list of delegation-only domains, and allows
you to customize the list.
... which is an excellent example of market forces influencing software
development.
At 20:14 14-07-2013, Doug Barton wrote:
It is unarguably true that as things currently stand there will be
"problems" with dotless domains. How widespread, and how serious those
problems become is yet to be seen.
I haven't seen anyone in the IETF arguing that sufficient market demand
overrides comments about problems that will appear.
I haven't seen anyone in the IETF arguing that the moon is made of green
cheese either. What does your comment have to do with anything? Sorry
(again) to be blunt, but the IETF pounding the "this thing is bad!" drum
is not a particularly effective tool. [1]
We have to be realistic about how and where our influence is relevant,
and more importantly how and where it is not. Detailing the technical
problems with the proposal is relevant IETF work, but that job has
already been done more thoroughly by my esteemed former colleagues on
the SSAC.
So either this is a good idea that will gain traction, and therefore
appropriate software support; or it is a bad idea that will go away on
its own. Either way, making a fuss
It is up to those who decide to decide whether dotless domains is a good
idea that will gain traction or a bad idea that will go away on it own.
You vastly overestimate your own importance in the grand scheme of
things. Don't worry, it's a common human problem. :) Rather than
repeating my point for the third time, see what I wrote just above.
At 20:25 14-07-2013, Dave Crocker wrote:
In contrast, assertions about "market demand" ensuring that "software
folks... will make them work" rests on a fuzzy concept of market
forces -- for example, the market of users isn't likely to be issuing
a formal or informal 'demand' about any of this, and a model of
altering installed-base behavior that has, I believe, has no
historical precedent.
Yes.
I already explained why Dave's perspective is wrong in my previous
message, which you apparently chose to ignore. Your example of
delegation-only domains for DNS software further proves my point.
Doug
[1] cf. NAT