Dear Colleagues,
As we discussed in Berlin, we need to move forward with adopting a problem
statement draft for further work on special use domain names.
Issues of usage around the domain name space are part of our charter, and the
IESG has expressed interest more than once in having a clear basis for dealing
with future cases such as the request for .onion in the special use domain
names registry or the needs of the HNCP protocol. The Chairs determined that
the WG should have a problem statement before attempting to specify changes to
RFC 6761 or other possible solutions.
The problem statement needs to be a WG document, with a WG commitment to get to
consensus on it.
We have two internet-drafts that have been submitted for discussion as problem
statements. They’re both individual submissions and the work of their named
authors. They cover many common features of the landscape but they’re also
written from slightly different viewpoints. It seems unlikely that they can be
combined, so we simply have to ask the WG to choose.
Both drafts have been revised in the last few days.
The drafts are:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tldr-sutld-ps/
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tldr-sutld-ps/>
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-adpkja-dnsop-special-names-problem/
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-adpkja-dnsop-special-names-problem/>
We’re opening a 2-week discussion period for the WG, to end on Sept. 26. At the
end of that time we’ll adopt one of these drafts for further work by the WG.
Shortly thereafter we will also be soliciting views on how the IETF might
address the problems we’ve identified with special use domain names.
Please read these drafts and tell us which you think the WG can adopt as a
problem statement, from the IETF perspective, about the various issues we’ve
discussed on special use names. We need your comments on the record— being able
to demonstrate the WG’s decision process is important— so please write to the
list.
Assuming some level of agreement on a problem statement, we’re tentatively
scheduling an interim WG meeting for next steps, in mid-October.
thanks all,
Tim & Suzanne
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