On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 11:38 AM, Thomas Narten wrote:
> The IESG has reviewed this document and has a number of concerns.
>
>
> The IESG believes that the name space as provided by the DNS should
> not be mixed or "contaminated" with name resolutions performed using
> the ICMP mechanism. Doing so raises complex security and trust issues
> that have not been explored.
>
> The document should make it clear that name lookups using the icmp
> mechanism described in this document are never to be mixed with DNS
> name lookups. That is, no queries made to the DNS (or implicitely
> assumed to be going to the DNS) should get back responses that have
> been learned through the ICMP name lookup mechanism.
I do not understand this comment.
Vendors have long learned how to integrate different name services:
DNS, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, Flat files....
ICMP NI would just be one more service to integrate.
- Alain.
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