On 3 May 2011 04:48, Livingood, Jason <[email protected]>wrote:
> In any of the various IPv6 fora (including v6ops at the IETF) "DNS
> Whitelisting" is how this practice is typically labeled. When writing the
> draft I felt this could be confusing outside of IPv6 circles and so
> lengthened it to "IPv6 DNS AAAA Whitelisting" in the title.
>
> In any case, "I don't like what it is called" is difficult to act on. ;-)
> If there are recommendations on alternatives, I'm all ears.
>
I would prefer a name that indicated that it was the resolvers that are
whitelisted.
>From the draft:
>>> When implemented, DNS whitelisting in practice means that a domain's
> >>> authoritative DNS will return a AAAA resource record to DNS recursive
> >>> resolvers [RFC1035] on the whitelist, while returning no AAAA
> >>> resource records to DNS resolvers which are not on the whitelist.
> ...
>
The AAAA records aren't thr things being whitelisted.
How about "IPv6 DNS Resolver Whitelisting"
or "IPv6 AAAA DNS Resolver Whitelisting"
John
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