Hi all,
William Maton and I have prepared two drafts relating to the AS112
project:
draft-jabley-as112-ops-00
draft-jabley-as112-being-attacked-help-help-00
Those who are unfamiliar with the AS112 project are invited to read
the abstract of either of those for some background.
We have requested a brief slot in Montréal to gauge the opinion of
the working group as to (a) whether the material treated in those
documents ought to be published in the RFC series, and (b) whether,
if so, they would benefit from collective review as dnsop working
group documents.
Comments relating to the content of the drafts is also most welcome,
obviously.
The problem we are trying to solve with these drafts is that the
AS112 infrastructure is poorly documented. We think that the IETF is
a good place for that documentation to live, since the function of
the nameservers concerned relates directly to address blocks reserved
by the IETF (in RFC1918).
Having been recently in the unenviable position[1] of answering phone
calls from angry people regarding the denial-of-service attack from
PRISONER.IANA.ORG on their firewalls (source port 53), I can also say
with confidence that being able to point such people at a published,
IETF document describing the project would have gone a long way
towards pacifying some of the moderately paranoid of the callers,
many of which were not at all convinced that this AS112 thing was on
the up and up.
(The most paranoid callers also had sincere doubts about entities
such as ISC, IANA, ICANN, and IETF, and many suspected they were all
fronts for rogue foreign governments, but such people are probably
beyond hope in so many other ways that to attempt to quench their
suspicions is probably a lost cause).
Joe
[1] at ISC, whose NOC number is the listed telephone contact for the
AS112 service prefix
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