At 17:38 -0800 11/8/05, Olaf M. Kolkman wrote:
Dear colleagues,
In the working group meeting I just mentioned that the IANA section of draft-
andrews-full-service-resolvers-01 should clearly mention who has change
control of the registry.
I'd like to suggest a completely different tack.
The document ought to be a standalone recommendation saying basically
"because of the havoc any one element, be it an DNS recursive server
or not, can inflict on the unfettered Internet, a DNS resolver should
not send certain queries to the general network. Instead the
queries, as documented herein, ought to be either answered
authoritatively by the recursive server or be answered by
administratively forwarding the queries to specific local server.
Queries for the following domains are to be handled this way..."
followed by the domains that today we want believe ought to be
handled this way.
The impact of this is that RFC6372 (my prediction of the number for
this, if it happens at all) will be used as a tool in two ways.
BIND 14.9.0 will feature a "rfc6372 not-in-effect;" means that BIND
does not load in pre-configured zones (like it does for the
root.hints). (Of course an explicit "type forward" or "type
{master|slave}" for any zone overrides the canned definitions.)
AOL will declare that it's recursive servers are RFC6372 compliant,
in the same way many companies are ISO9001 compliant. Or perhaps
someday someone will try to license recursive servers and use this as
one of the criteria. (You never know where policy may pop up next.)
I don't mean to suggest the implementation, but how the document can
successfully be used.
If someday there is a change to the list of domains, a new RFC can be
cut. I bet the pain of that will be less than having to manage a
registry - or even debate the registry and then get it initially set
up.
(Note - written with a tongue-in-cheek style. Any similarity to any
living organizations, current or past, is purely a coincidence.)
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