---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: william manning <chinese.apri...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:55 PM Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-dnsop-terminology-bis To: George Michaelson <g...@algebras.org>
true enough, there is a single, canonical dnssec signed zone which can only be generated with explicit, auditable permission of the zone authority. /Wm On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:38 PM, George Michaelson <g...@algebras.org> wrote: > Only the zone authority can publish a DNSSEC signed zone. > > Anyone can claim to publish a view of a non-DNSSEC signed zone. > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Dick Franks <rwfra...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > On 3 July 2018 at 16:40, Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote: > >> > >> On 3 Jul 2018, at 09:11, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com> wrote: > >> > >> > This is not a complete review of the latest revision.. I'm hoping to > get > >> > to that in a day or two. But I've got a question about whether > something > >> > should be added to the document.. > >> > > >> > A question came up in conversation recently about the use of the verb > >> > "to publish" in reference to managing DNS data. It quickly became > clear > >> > that there may be a common overloading of terms, where the same word > means > >> > different things to different people. I wasn't sure this fell into > the > >> > scope of the terminology document, but I just checked and it does use > >> > "publish" in reference to DNS data, so perhaps we should come up with > a > >> > definition for that. > >> > > >> > To me, publishing DNS data has always meant the generation of the zone > >> > and the data it contains, as distinct from distributing the zone (to > name > >> > servers, possibly though zone transfer) and serving the zone (making > it > >> > available to be queried on a name server). To the person I was > speaking to, > >> > "publishing" meant putting that data on Internet-facing name servers > that > >> > would answer queries about it. > >> > >> To me, DNS data is published when it is made available to actors who > wish > >> to consume it. That means serving the data (i.e. having servers with the > >> data available to answer queries). I have never heard "publish" used to > mean > >> zone generation. A zone, once generated, is not published until it is > >> available for access by others. > > > > > > agree, the word carries the usual dictionary meaning: > > > > publish v.t. to make public; to divulge; to announce; to proclaim; to > set > > forth to the public; > > to put forth and offer for sale orig. any article, now books, > newspapers, > > etc.; > > to put into circulation. > > > > zone generation without the "setting forth" does not appear to qualify. > > > > > > Dick > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DNSOP mailing list > > DNSOP@ietf.org > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop > > > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop >
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