Synthesise a pseudo-TLD from the ULA prefix.
Brian
On 01/08/2012 15:17, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> In message <[email protected]>
> Brian E Carpenter writes:
>
>> On 01/08/2012 05:48, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
>> ...
>>> fridge.sitelocal. is a FQDN with site local scope.
>>
>> And therefore intrinsically evil, just like 10.0.0.0/8 is intrinsically evil.
>>
>> IMHO we shouldn't be discussing how to make it work less badly; we should
>> be discussing how to avoid it entirely.
>>
>> Brian
>
>
> Brian,
>
> Not being connected to the Internet and not having any configuration
> at all might also be intrinsically evil, but that's the situation when
> a consumer takes some gadget out of the box.
>
> What we are trying to accomplish with the sitelocal is a way to name
> things on a local network that have no domain name assigned through a
> registry and have not had a domain name assigned as part of some
> subdomain of the provider.
>
> Even if the homenet WG was extremely thoroughthe gadget did 100% of
> what we specify and implemented everything perfectly, we can't control
> the user who almost never has a domain name of their own or the ISP
> that can't be bothered delegating some subdomain of theirs to a
> customer. The customer then has no global domain to hang names off of
> and has no choice but to not use DNS or make use of a sitelocal domain
> with site local scope.
>
> So sitelocal is inherently needed, either during a transition (until
> the uplink comes up at least for the first time and a domain name is
> learned) or permanently (if no domain name ever gets delegated to the
> residential customer site).
>
> Curtis
>
>
> ps - Yes - it is inherently evil. So is not delegating rDNS IMHO.
> But we can't control those MSO and ILEC residential ISPs.
>
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