On 3/2/10 9:38 AM, Edward Lewis wrote:
> At 10:43 +0100 3/2/10, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
>>     >     either have a bof (formal) or a small lunch mtg
>>     >     during the week of IETF77?
>>     >
>>     >     I'd be glad to attend.
>>      ...
>>
>>     going to be there and he agreed to attend the BoF.
>>
>> Note, it is way past the time to request a BOF so I geuss the only
>> option is something informal.
> 
> I'm on the verge of putting together a Bar BoF call on the IETF list.
> There have been two work items I wanted to cover - EPPbis and the issue
> of provisioning DS records.


I'm quite interested in the EPPbis area, and the DS provisioning
problem, but I'm spending my wicked limited travel time until mid-May
(my partner's a 1L at Cornell Law) on a CORE technical meeting.

I'll be happy to v-bar-bof from in front of a German beer, 9 timezones
distant.

> Only in the last week did it sink into me that the problem is that we
> need a way to push DS records along the established registration path
> and not the DNS operations path.  What this means - for registries that
> operate DNS and have direct dealings with registrants, the DS can go
> from the registrant's designated DNS operator to the registry. For
> registries that deal exclusively with registrars, the registrant's DNS
> operator has to know how to get the DS to the registrar (who in turn
> will use some other protocol to reach the registry).
> 
> Unfortunately, I doubt that many registrars will be at the IETF. (Maybe
> they will be.)  This means we might not get the word out to those who
> should help shape the requirements for this.


There will be some meeting of registrars (ICANN accredited that is) a
week from today, and there is the RSG mailing list too.


> My concern - if the IETF produces a solution for transferring DS records
> in-band to the DNS protocol we will repeat a mistake made in pushing EPP
> to Full Standard.  Pushing EPP to Full Standard is in itself a true
> accomplishment and there is no controversy, the process was followed
> faithfully.  The problem is, once it was Full Standard it was found to
> not be applicable to the general population that it was designed to
> serve.  The protocol works and is interoperable; the requirements didn't
> grow as the use cases grew.
> 

+1

Eric
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