Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

2022-06-27 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, John Levine wrote: spec, it would take a long time for the changes to percolate out into the field. There is still plenty of software using TLS 1.1 which was published in 2006 and deprecated a year ago. That does not apply to tor nodes though. These are forced to have

Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

2022-06-27 Thread John Levine
It appears that Peter Thomassen said: > > >On 6/27/22 22:05, John Levine wrote: >> But there is a >> great deal of software that expects the names it uses to look like >> hostnames, and won't work with anything else. > >The software for new applications which would use a _foo pseudo-TLD

Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

2022-06-27 Thread Paul Wouters
On Jun 27, 2022, at 16:34, Michael StJohns wrote: > > It was true once! :-) That's why I said "I think" - too many twiddles to > the DNS to keep tract of. As of IETF 101, these twiddles are now called “humps”  Paul ___ DNSOP mailing list

Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

2022-06-27 Thread Peter Thomassen
On 6/27/22 22:05, John Levine wrote: But there is a great deal of software that expects the names it uses to look like hostnames, and won't work with anything else. The software for new applications which would use a _foo pseudo-TLD namespace is not yet written. It is for future

Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

2022-06-27 Thread Michael StJohns
On 6/27/2022 4:31 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Michael StJohns said: I suggest that reserving "_*" names is redundant as (I *think* - I didn't go looking for the reference?) strings beginning with an underscore can only be used in left-most components of a DNS name. Dunno where you

Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

2022-06-27 Thread John Levine
It appears that Michael StJohns said: >I suggest that reserving "_*" names is redundant as (I *think* - I >didn't go looking for the reference?) strings beginning with an >underscore can only be used in left-most components of a DNS name. Dunno where you heard that, but it's completely not

Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

2022-06-27 Thread Michael StJohns
On 6/27/2022 4:05 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Peter Thomassen said: I am proposing to reserve all top-level underscore labels (_*) for special use. Why? While I don't think that reserving underscore names will break anything that is not already broken, I also don't see what

Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

2022-06-27 Thread John Levine
It appears that Peter Thomassen said: >I am proposing to reserve all top-level underscore labels (_*) for special >use. Why? While I don't think that reserving underscore names will break anything that is not already broken, I also don't see what problem it solves. Everything you say about