Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-15 Thread Olaf Kolkman
On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:08 PM, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones ' draft-jabley-reverse-servers-01.txt as a Proposed Standard Colleagues, Ron, In the context

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-09 Thread John R. Levine
for the record, sink.arpa document was my idea and Joe volunteered to help it has nothing to do with his day time job but is related to something that Joe cares about, having explicit documentation of special cases. In that case, could you work with him to add language to the draft that

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-06 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
At 00:40 05/01/2010, John C Klensin wrote: Ok, Joe, a few questions since, as indicated in another note, you are generating these documents in your ICANN capacity: John, for the record, sink.arpa document was my idea and Joe volunteered to help it has nothing to do with his day time job but

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, January 05, 2010 18:22 -0500 Olafur Gudmundsson o...@ogud.com wrote: ... (1) If ICANN can re-delegate the servers for these domains without IAB or IETF action, why is IETF action needed to create the new names? They are, after all, just names. Transparency ? Transparency

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-05 Thread SM
At 06:08 04-01-2010, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones ' draft-jabley-reverse-servers-01.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-05 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
At 00:50 05/01/2010, John R. Levine wrote: For the sink.arpa, it would be good to explain why we want this name to exist. We *don't* want the name to exist; that's the point of the draft. I presume that's what you meant? It would still be nice to put in an explanation of the motivation for

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-05 Thread John R. Levine
Yeah. As far as I know, it is quite uncommon for applications to hard code treatment of .INVALID. But you seem to be saying that they do, and that causes problems that SINK.ARPA would solve. Tell us what they are. There is one case where knowledge and special handling of the name may cause

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-05 Thread Joe Abley
Hi, On 2010-01-05, at 03:34, SM wrote: Is what is proposed in this draft a matter of interest to the DNS Operations Working Group? If so, the document could have been brought to the attention of the relevant working group before the Last Call. That doesn't preclude the draft from being

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-05 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2010-01-04 at 06:08 -0800, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones ' draft-jabley-reverse-servers-01.txt as a Proposed Standard First an editorial nit, there's an

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-05 Thread Sam Hartman
Olafur == Olafur Gudmundsson o...@ogud.com writes: Olafur There is one case where knowledge and special handling of Olafur the name may cause problems: DNS Liers i.e. specialized Olafur DNS resolvers that make all non-existing name exist that do Olafur not generate lie for

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-05 Thread SM
Hi Joe, At 08:00 05-01-2010, Joe Abley wrote: We think the re-delegation of IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA is of great interest to dnsop and other operational forums outside the IETF, and as I mentioned yesterday the redelegation I apologize for the working group question. I forgot that the draft

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-05, at 16:55, SM wrote: The diversity of operators has some advantages, i.e. not sharing fate. The Introduction Section of this draft mentions that The choice of operators for individual nameservers is beyond the scope of this document. I don't know whether a change of

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread John Levine
- 'Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones ' draft-jabley-reverse-servers-01.txt as a Proposed Standard By my reading, section 5 of this document asks IANA to delegate IN-ADDR-SERVERS.ARPA and IP6-SERVERS.ARPA to a set of nameservers, but it doesn't ask them to provide contents for the

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread John R. Levine
The document aims to specify the names of the nameservers to which IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA can be delegated to, and nothing more. OK. Does that mean it'll take another RFC to do the actual delegation? Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for Dummies,

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Sam Hartman
I'm not really particularly happy with Joe's two recent DNS drafts. They give me the impression as a reader that a lot of context is being hidden from me and that the implications of the draft are being carefully obscured so that I as a reviewer not involved in the process won't know what is

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:43:27PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: They give me the impression as a reader that a lot of context is being hidden from me and that the implications of the draft are being carefully obscured so that I as a reviewer not involved in the process won't know what is going

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Abley
Hi Phil, [Replying from jab...@hopcount.ca rather than joe.ab...@icann.org, since the former is the address which is subscribed to the ietf@ietf.org list.] On 2010-01-04, at 16:46, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2010-01-04 at 06:08 -0800, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-04, at 14:43, Sam Hartman wrote: I'm not really particularly happy with Joe's two recent DNS drafts. If I can help clarify anything, please let me know. They give me the impression as a reader that a lot of context is being hidden from me and that the implications of the draft

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread John R. Levine
If you could me more substantive guidance as to where the documents could be improved, I'd be very happy. As things stand the best I can do is say I'm sorry :-) Well, OK. Is there a plan to move the DNS for in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa to the new set of servers? If so, what is it? Will it

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-04, at 17:40, John R. Levine wrote: If you could me more substantive guidance as to where the documents could be improved, I'd be very happy. As things stand the best I can do is say I'm sorry :-) Well, OK. Is there a plan to move the DNS for in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa to

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-04, at 17:59, Joe Abley wrote: On 2010-01-04, at 17:40, John R. Levine wrote: If you could me more substantive guidance as to where the documents could be improved, I'd be very happy. As things stand the best I can do is say I'm sorry :-) Well, OK. Is there a plan to move

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Sam Hartman
Joe == Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca writes: Joe On 2010-01-04, at 14:43, Sam Hartman wrote: I'm not really particularly happy with Joe's two recent DNS drafts. Joe If I can help clarify anything, please let me know. So, I think John is asking the questions well about the in-addr.arpa

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-04, at 19:23, Sam Hartman wrote: So, I think John is asking the questions well about the in-addr.arpa plan. OK. I hope the answers are helpful. For the sink.arpa, it would be good to explain why we want this name to exist. We *don't* want the name to exist; that's the point of

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, January 04, 2010 17:59 -0800 Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: ... The draft plan is to re-delegate IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA to dedicated servers, named according to the text you have read. The servers are to be operated by the five RIRs plus ICANN, making six operators in

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread John R. Levine
For the sink.arpa, it would be good to explain why we want this name to exist. We *don't* want the name to exist; that's the point of the draft. I presume that's what you meant? It would still be nice to put in an explanation of the motivation for adding SINK.ARPA when its semantics and

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-04, at 21:50, John R. Levine wrote: For the sink.arpa, it would be good to explain why we want this name to exist. We *don't* want the name to exist; that's the point of the draft. I presume that's what you meant? It would still be nice to put in an explanation of the

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-04, at 21:40, John C Klensin wrote: Ok, Joe, a few questions since, as indicated in another note, you are generating these documents in your ICANN capacity: (1) If ICANN can re-delegate the servers for these domains without IAB or IETF action, why is IETF action needed to create

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread John R. Levine
It would still be nice to put in an explanation of the motivation for adding SINK.ARPA when its semantics and operations, at least for clients, appear identical to whatever.INVALID. I don't know that I have anything much to add to my previous answers to that question. Well, at this point

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-04, at 22:09, John R. Levine wrote: It would still be nice to put in an explanation of the motivation for adding SINK.ARPA when its semantics and operations, at least for clients, appear identical to whatever.INVALID. I don't know that I have anything much to add to my

Last Call: draft-jabley-reverse-servers (Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones) to Proposed Standard

2010-01-04 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones ' draft-jabley-reverse-servers-01.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on