On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:53:01PM -0500, Ted Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 16 lines which said:
> Why not just set up a list of TLDs in a mozilla.org subdomain, sign > the subdomain with DNSSEC, put the DNSSEC public key into firefox, > and have firefox consult the TLD list in the DNS, verified with > DNSSEC, whenever information is needed? Your proposal solves *one* problem (the one well explained by Andrew Sullivan), the difficulty of having an up-to-date list in the installed browsers. It leaves open the other problems: * Difficulty of managing this list (and even worse if every browser vendor ask the TLD managers for a slightly different info) * Administrative boundaries at lower levels (if we delegate under ".fr", it says nothing about x.example.fr and y.example.fr: are they in the same administrative domain?) * Mozilla's methods of arm-twisting _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
