Dear colleagues, I'm going to send related messages to four IETF lists where I suspect there might be people who are interested: dnsext, dnsop, apps-discuss, and idna-update. My apologies to those of you who get it more than once.
For those of you who have been following or otherwise interested in the ICANN Variant Issues Project, the case study reports are up. The public comment period is open until 14 November. The Project is aimed at sorting out, for some scripts, what people mean when they talk about "variant names" in the DNS. For this WG, it seems to me that some of the techniques people seem to be desiring involve potential effects for DNS operation. One group in particular appears to be suggesting one or more DNAMEs for potentially every delegation from the root zone when that script is used. The operational implications lower in the tree might be worth considering. As a matter of full disclosure, I point out that I have been involved with these reports, providing some observations about the (technical) feasibility of various things people wanted to do. I provided advice, but of course the teams actually responsible for the reports were free to do as they wished with my advice (including ignore it). I encourage those of you who are interested in the topic to read the reports and make any comments you think are useful in the public comment forum, or (for that matter) by discussing things on the open ICANN list devoted to the project (https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/vip). Note that the usual ICANN processes don't include the discussion on the mailing list as public comments, so if you want your comments to be considered formally, you'll need to post them in the appropriate area. Best regards, Andrew -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
