On 11/13/16 6:16 AM, Edward Lewis wrote:
> I read through the document and had a lot of comments, so maybe I need to 
> "back up a bit."
> 
> I'm conflicted over documents that define good operational practices over top 
> of a standard protocol.  There's much evidence we need this, for example, 
> just to pick one, the number of TLD zones with very large DNSKEY sets.  On 
> the other hand, confusing operations and protocol can impair efforts to 
> improve the protocol, such as how round-robin made DNSSEC more difficult in 
> needing to define a canonical order of the resource records within an RR set.
> 
> I'd support this document but it has to state up front that it has a limited 
> scope, which needs to be properly defined.

traditionally we would call that an applicability statement. I think
that's quite useful particularly if there are cases where it should not
be be employed.

> The origin of my comment is section 2.1 which says that a delegations' name 
> must be a hostname (a'la RFC 1123) and further that registered names are 
> generally good for this.  I know that there's no need for a delegation's name 
> to be "printable" in general, the only delegation I can't make work (with 
> DNSSEC) is '*'.
> 
> E.g., there's no reason I can't have "\007.mylab.mydept.myorg.example" in my 
> zone.  Of course, that would not be very easy to access via a web browser 
> location bar.
> 
> Contrary to that, I had few "problems" with section 3 because it states up 
> front "the public Internet DNS hierarchy" as the application domain.  Section 
> 2 and earlier didn't scope the work.
> 
> What I can't find is a definition for, what is called in section 8, a "fully 
> functional" delegation.  Again, that is tied to the lack of scope.
> 
> And, (as this dives deeper than I intended to mention), in section 8.2 there 
> is this:
> 
> "Any DNSKEY algorithm number used for in a zone MUST be assigned by IANA."
> 
> Does that include PRIVATEDNS (253)?  (To pick nits, it's not DNSKEY algorithm 
> number, it's the registry of DNS Security Algorithm Numbers.)  If someone 
> uses that "IANA assigned" number they won't be "fully functional" for some 
> interpretation of "fully functional."  And ... I think IANA "assigned" is the 
> wrong verbage, perhaps IANA registered.  By now I've gone far into the weeds.
> 
> I'd like to see the document state or define what kind of delegations it is 
> covering.  I think it is fine to define a kind of something more generic and 
> apply rules to that.  Much in the same way that IDNA defines rules for 
> IDNA-aware applications while not altering the basic protocol definition.
> 
> Bottom line - there ought to be a way to provide operational guidance to 
> participants on the global public Internet while allowing for continued 
> permission-less innovation.  Guidance is needed but don't give it in a way 
> that can be used to stop anyone from trying other things in their sandboxes.

sure

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