'Making sense' or not is not something that the IETF needs to specify in MUST/SHOULD/MAY terms. There may be reasons to discuss the potential impact of implementing that way, but that is the most the IETF should do. Again, unless there is impact to a 3rd party, putting local use addresses in the global DNS is none of the IETF's business.
Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:57 PM > To: Tony Hain > Cc: 'Dan Lanciani'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Response to AD comments on draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr- > 03.txt > > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Tony Hain wrote: > > I agree with Dan. Unless someone can show explicit harm to a third party > by > > putting them in the global DNS, there is no reason to even discuss their > > presence or absence in the global DNS. > > I think there are two (operational -- can't be checked by the > implementation) cases here: > > 1) putting in local addresses to global DNS names which are expected > to be used by outsiders who are not interested of local > addresses, or to whom local addresses could even mean a > service degradation. (e.g., www.example.com, smtp.example.com, > etc.etc.) > > 2) putting in local addresses for names which are not expected to be > used (e.g., "canada.vpn.example.com", to perform some kind of > "auto-discovery" functions) except who know which hostnames those > are and know what they're doing. > > In the former, adding them makes very little sense. In the latter, > adding them might be beneficial, while I'm not sure I can see the > scenario as I think one might want to use global addresses instead.. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dan > > > Lanciani > > > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:16 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Response to AD comments on draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local- > addr- > > > 03.txt > > > > > > Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > |> |=> At least you and I agree FWIW :) > > > |> |Perhaps I missed this discussion, but I can't see > > > |> |why they should be put in the global DNS. > > > |> > > > |> One might want to build an overlay network where consenting sites > know > > > |> how > > > |> to reach each other by constructing dynamic tunnels based on some > (yet > > > |> to > > > |> be defined) mapping function. Thus the addresses may well be > > > |> reachable in > > > |> some sense. > > > | > > > |But is this reason enough to have them in the global DNS tree. > > > > > > Certainly. If they are in the global DNS then the overlay network can > be > > > handled entirely by routers (or even stub hosts) that know how to look > up > > > the > > > mapping and create the tunnels. This is the approach I intend to use > if > > > unique > > > addresses become a reality. If the addresses are not allowed in the > > > global DNS > > > then multi-faced or multi-rooted DNS (or worse) hacks are required to > > > allow > > > applications to see the addresses in the first place. > > > > > > I strongly object to restricting unique addresses from the global DNS. > It > > > seriously compromises their utility and it does nothing to make > anyone's > > > life easier. Applications must already deal with the case of > addresses > > > that > > > are not reachable because of filters. There is no reason to single > these > > > addresses out for second-class treatment. > > > > > > Dan Lanciani > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the > Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." > Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
