Great comments, Ralph--thanks!

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Ralph Droms <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’ve read draft-ietf-homenet-dot-00.  If I’ve got it right, the concept and 
> text in draft-ietf-homenet-dot-00 are modeled after the behavior specified in 
> RFC 6303 and the text in RFC 6761that specifies the SUDN registry entries for 
> the SUDNs defined in RFC 6303.  Seems like a good starting point for  
> draft-ietf-homenet-dot-00.
>
> I think the document can be advanced quickly; here’s some input I hope is 
> helpful...
>
> I suggest that the paragraph in the Introduction that motivates the change 
> from .home to .homenet be augmented or replaced with the reasons Ray listed 
> in his e-mail (included below).
>
> I also have a few clarifications and other fairly minor editorial suggestions…
>
> In section 3, the response to item 3 in the SUDN reservation considerations 
> could be clarified by specifying that any queries in the .homenet zone must 
> be forwarded to a DNS service as configured by explicitly by HNCP or other 
> appropriate local configuration mechanism coordinated with .homenet 
> resolution, as opposed to just “configured”.  A manually configured entry for 
> some external server is “configured”, but not configured in a helpful way.
>
> Given that the existence of draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis, it would be 
> helpful (at least, I would find it helpful) to use the agreed common 
> terminology; for example “recursive resolver” instead of “Caching DNS 
> servers”.
>
> In the answer for question 5, it might help the reader to specify which zones 
> the “authoritative servers” are authoritative for.
>
> “DNS server operator” is likely a term of art in the answer for question, but 
> it’s not clear to me which operators and servers are referred to, here.  
> Although passive voice should be avoided, it might be appropriate to simply 
> write “DNS servers outside a home network should not be configured to be 
> authoritative for .homenet.
>
> - Ralph
>
>
>> On Nov 15, 2016, at 8:40 PM, Ray Bellis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 16/11/2016 09:53, Margaret Cullen wrote:
>>>
>>> What is the reasoning for using .homenet as the Homenet Domain, instead of 
>>> registering and using .home?
>>>
>>
>> <chair hat partly on>
>>
>> 1.  we cannot be sure that using .home is consistent with the
>>    existing (ab)uses
>>
>>    [e.g. BT in the UK already have about 5M CPE devices deployed
>>     that are not "Homenet" devices but do use ".home" as their
>>     default domain name.  We don't know how those would interact]
>>
>> 2.  ICANN is in receipt of about a dozen applications for ".home",
>>    and some of those applicants no doubt have deeper pockets than
>>    the IETF does should they decide to litigate
>>
>> NB:  Whilst ICANN has previously said that they won't actually delegate
>> ".home" to any of those applicatants because of the amount of existing
>> (ab)use of that name that's visible at the DNS root servers, they are
>> under pressure from the applicants collectively to reverse that position.
>>
>> Ray
>>
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