> On Nov 15, 2016, at 11:08 PM, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Great comments, Ralph—thanks!

You’re welcome.  I noticed a typo in my e-mail - my last comment applies to 
question 6.

- Ralph

> 
> 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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