> On 15 Aug 2022, at 00:57, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 14, 2022, at 09:16, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> but otherwise stuff works fine even if it can sometimes be
>> confusing as to how kerberos realms and DNS domains do or
>> don't map to one another.
> 
> But that’s because foo.example in DNS maps to FOO.EXAMPLE in Kerberos in most 
> deployments.
> 
> let’s say I get COCA-COLA.COM, that’s quite a different situation.

Then you will have a problem if you run up against anyone else using 
COCA-COLA.COM as a realm name.  I also expect that if you are anyone other than 
the Coca-Cola Company and run up against the Coca-Cola Company you  will be 
forced to rename your realm.

Kerberos doesn’t have a naming authority but to use it in a federated manner 
there needs to be an authority.  Most users of Kerberos use the DNS namespace 
as that authority.

> We can have all the clever mappings for DNS to support alternative backend 
> systems, but in the end the real issue is that “issued names” in the DNS 
> world won’t map to alternative owners. The only way to guarantee that is to 
> carve out some strings. But it will be unpopular strings because the popular 
> ones are taken or reserved.
> 
> Paul
> 
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