I think it is a good idea too, but I don't see why it needs an RFC. It is
purely administrative function in a nameserver to configure it not go give
out certain data to requests from, say, certain IP ranges. The issues of
'how it works' and what features, administrative syntax, etc seem to me to
be as proprietary as the server configuration file.
Indeed, it should be easy for some nameservers (powerDNS comes to mind)
to do this now. But it doesn't change the protocol, it just changes the
administration and operation of the server.
--Dean
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Rob Austein wrote:
> At Thu, 06 May 2004 17:26:34 +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> >
> > could you tell me what happened to
> > draft-ietf-dnsop-dontpublish-unreachable-03.txt? it has been expired
> > for some time now. i think it is a good document...
>
> I thought it was useful too. If I recall the history of this one
> correctly, it was a WG document which a number of people liked, but
> the WG ratholed discussing how many angels can dance on the word
> "unreachable", why firewalls are an offense before God, Man, and Small
> Furry Creature From Alpha Centauri, and other nonterminating topics.
> The author, not being totally out of his mind, eventually found
> something more productive to do with his time.
>
> This document is not on the WG's current charter, because the last
> time we asked for a volunteer, the silence was deafening. Absent
> somebody willing to work on it, there is no point in asking our ADs to
> let us put it back on the charter.
>
> So: who cares about bringing this one back enough to work on it?
>
> Given what happened the last time that I foolishly asserted from
> memory that an author had given up on a DNSOP WG doc, let me phrase
> this as a two part question:
>
> a) Is the author interested in bringing back this document? If so, he
> of course has dibs.
>
> b) Otherwise, is there somebody else who would be interested in
> picking up the pen?
> .
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