[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > chairs, > > i would like to get some guidance on how to proceed with my document > > draft-itojun-ipv6-nodeinfo-revlookup-00.txt. i would like to publish > > it as an informational/experimental RFC. which wg is appropriate, > > or should i pursue it as individual submission? > > > > i understand pushbacks against icmpv6 node information query > > (which should be addressed separately), and against non-DNS name > > mapping in general. > > just to make sure - i don't mean to replace PTR with > it, it can be used together with PTR. it is an interesting situation > if you get answer from both, but anyway...
One application for this could be a reverse dnsserver who doesn't know the PTR for a certain IPv6 address it serves the delegation for. It could then send this icmp nodeinfo request to the endpoint, which is very probably quite close networkwise and use that as a response. Ofcourse it could check first if the forward exists and/or that the reverse matches a specified set of host/domainnames. Ofcourse this setting depends on the operator of the dns and network. But IMHO it's easier to implement as it either avoids one to setup a dhcp server to update the reverse zone or to distribute the keys for secure reverse dns updates. Greets, Jeroen -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
