Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-24 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:08 AM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I can't agree with this statement. As others have said, the practice of using a search list to allow 'ssh foo.bar' to reach 'foo.bar.example.com' isn't going anywhere, and there are a lot of people that make extensive use of the

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-24 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 24, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Alex Bligh wrote: --On 24 October 2011 07:29:55 -0400 Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: I'm just pointing out that for the vast majority of the contexts in which domain names are used, the expectation is that a domain name that contains

Re: [DNSOP] [dhcwg] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-24 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 24, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: So it seems that this question is already a matter of local policy, which given the number and quality of the divergent views seems eminently reasonable. Can we move on now? No, because relying on local policy is not sufficient for

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-23 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 23, 2011, at 2:39 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote: On 2011/10/22, at 15:21, Keith Moore wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Doug Barton wrote: 1. I think we're all in agreement that dot-terminated names (e.g., example.) should not be subject to search lists. I personally don't have

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-22 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/21/2011 08:13, Keith Moore wrote: Names containing . should not be subject to search lists. Given a name like foo.bar, there's no reliable way to tell whether bar is a TLD or a subdomain of something in the search list. I've been

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-21 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 21, 2011, at 3:15 AM, teemu.savolai...@nokia.com wrote: Brian, Do you agree that nodes' behavioral differences between foo and foo. names is out of the scope of this particular MIF draft? That's not how I would state it. I think handling of foo. is something that IETF can define,

Re: [DNSOP] [mif] [dnsext] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-21 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 21, 2011, at 3:15 AM, teemu.savolai...@nokia.com wrote: Brian, Would the following text be then ok? Please note I changed the domain addition from SHOULD to MAY, if there is going to be attempt to deprecate/redefine/update search list logics. Or do you think it should remain

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-21 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 21, 2011, at 3:15 AM, teemu.savolai...@nokia.com teemu.savolai...@nokia.com wrote: There could perhaps be another draft, which would say that if name is foo it should not be appended with search lists but foo. might? And whatever other

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-21 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Keith Moore wrote: And honestly I don't see why handling of non-DNS names like foo is in scope for MIF. Because such names are typically resolved using DNS search lists, and at lease one mechanism

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-21 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Keith Moore wrote: IMO: search lists are useful, but only with bare names - and the behavior of those should be implementation dependent. Trying to nail it down will break too much widespread practice

Re: [DNSOP] [mif] [dnsext] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-20 Thread Keith Moore
It might that IETF should consider bare names out of its scope, except perhaps to say that they're not DNS names, they don't have to necessarily be mappable to DNS names, and that their use and behavior is host and application-dependent. Keith On Oct 20, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Brian E Carpenter

Re: [DNSOP] [dnsext] [mif] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-20 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:19 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Keith Moore wrote: It might that IETF should consider bare names out of its scope, except perhaps to say that they're not DNS names, they don't have to necessarily be mappable to DNS names, and that their use

Re: [DNSOP] [mif] [dnsext] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document

2011-10-19 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 19, 2011, at 6:39 AM, Ray Bellis wrote: When new gTLDs are introduced it is likely for brand-name gTLDs that they will wish to use bare names in the DNS (i.e. a single label hostname) for their primary web sites. I don't see why IETF should give a flying *#(*#$ what the owners of

Re: [DNSOP] [mif] bare names (was: [dnsext] 2nd Last Call for MIF DNS server selection document)

2011-10-19 Thread Keith Moore
address, so apologies to those who see it twice. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 07:23:15AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: I don't see why IETF should give a flying *#(*#$ what the owners of brand-name gTLDs want. Brand-name gTLDs are an exceedingly stupid idea, and treating single label names