Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-28 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Joe Abley writes: I'm saying that the body that administers the root zone is not the IETF. Not being a policy person I don't have any specific fears, but I'll observe that the set of people who make policy that affects administration of the root zone has a fairly small intersection with the se

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-12-27, at 13:07, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > I don't get it. Are you saying that you think it's possible that someone will > come along and overturn RFC 2606, and that that someone wouldn't overturn any > .arpa-related rules? I'm saying that the body that administers the root zone is not

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-27 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Joe Abley writes: On 2009-12-25, at 06:02, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: What is the actual difference between the proposed sink.arpa and the existing .invalid? (a) Our idea when we chose that name was to try and make the policy environment within which the (non-) assignment rule was to be insti

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-12-25, at 06:02, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > What is the actual difference between the proposed sink.arpa and the existing > .invalid? (a) Our idea when we chose that name was to try and make the policy environment within which the (non-) assignment rule was to be instituted clear. The

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-25 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
John C Klensin writes: I guess the issue for me is that I want to see either (i) Exactly one name allocated, with no hand waving about registries and other, similar names. +1, but I want to add a question: What is the actual difference between the proposed sink.arpa and the ex

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-23 Thread Alan Barrett
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > > - 'The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories) ' > as a BCP I would like to see a requirement (or at least a recommendation) that DNS o

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, December 22, 2009 08:55 -0800 Ted Hardie wrote: >... > Hi John, > > My take on this is that this idea is worth exploring, and this > document can take us down the right road for that by adding > the caching clarification and removing the examples. Removing > the apparent force o

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread SM
At 11:05 22-12-2009, Joe Abley wrote: Why? Some future IAB would have a list of names and the appropriate reference. The purposes of the document under review is described fairly succinctly in section 1: 1. to create a new IANA registry called "ARPA Reserved Names" (see Section 4

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-12-22, at 18:32, SM wrote: > At 06:23 22-12-2009, Joe Abley wrote: > >> On 2009-12-22, at 11:33, SM wrote: >> >> The goal was to provide a set of additional requirements that the IAB would >> take into consideration when carrying out the duties as described in 3172. >> For example, so

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, SM wrote: > At 05:50 22-12-2009, Tony Finch wrote: > > > > What issue? As far as I can tell there's no conflict between Joe's draft > > and RFC 5321, except that the choice of words in the example needs > > improvement. > > The wording in the draft is at odds with what is in RF

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread SM
At 05:50 22-12-2009, Tony Finch wrote: What issue? As far as I can tell there's no conflict between Joe's draft and RFC 5321, except that the choice of words in the example needs improvement. The wording in the draft is at odds with what is in RFC 5321. This can be discussed in the relevant w

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, John C Klensin wrote: > > If implicit MXs continue to be permitted, this proposal, as I understand > it, would not work. I believe it will work. RFC 5321 explains it twice: If an empty list of MXs is returned, the address is treated as if it was associated with an impli

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread Ted Hardie
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:14 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > Olafur, > > It seems to me that Ted's message asks for more clarity about > what is being specified, actual review by email-related groups > of email-related records and their implications, and so on. > Certainly I agree with those reques

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-12-22, at 11:33, SM wrote: > This draft requires IAB review and approval. You'll note that we asked for it in section 6. > The following paragraph may require some scrutiny: > > "INVALID is poorly characterised from a DNS perspective in > [RFC2606]; that is, the specificatio

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, SM wrote: > > If I understood the story, it is to get compliant MTAs not to attempt mail > delivery to domains which do not wish to accept mail. This does not really > solve the implicit MX question but that's another story. The idea of using sink.arpa as an MX target (like t

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread SM
Hi Olafur, At 21:22 21-12-2009, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: Correction the message should have been: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg59761.html The changes that Ted Hardie asked for does not address my concern as my comment was about the example in Section 3: "Installing

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-22 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-12-22, at 04:57, John C Klensin wrote: > Let me say this a little more strongly. This proposal > effectively modifies RFC 5321 for one particular domain name at > the same time that it effectively (see notes by others) > advocates against coding the relevant domain name into anything > o

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, December 22, 2009 00:22 -0500 Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: > Correction the message should have been: > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg59761.html > >Olafur > > > At 00:18 22/12/2009, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: >> John, SM >> do the changes that Ted Hardie as

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
Correction the message should have been: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg59761.html Olafur At 00:18 22/12/2009, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: John, SM do the changes that Ted Hardie asked for address your concern(s)? see: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
John, SM do the changes that Ted Hardie asked for address your concern(s)? see: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg59759.html All we want sink-arpa to do is to create a domain name with known characteristics and create a mechanism to define other such domain names that may have

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, December 21, 2009 14:18 -0800 SM wrote: > At 10:40 21-12-2009, The IESG wrote: >> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter >> to consider the following document: >> >> - 'The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories) >> ' as a BCP >> >> The IESG

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Manning
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:40:07AM -0800, The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > > - 'The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories) ' > as a BCP > > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread SM
At 10:40 21-12-2009, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories) ' as a BCP The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
At 15:38 21/12/2009, Ted Hardie wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: > At 14:16 21/12/2009, Ted Hardie wrote: >> >> I have not objection to the creation of sink.arpa, but >> I will repeat comments I made on the NANOG list >> that there are ways of accomplishing the

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread Ted Hardie
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: > At 14:16 21/12/2009, Ted Hardie wrote: >> >> I have not objection to the creation of sink.arpa, but >> I will repeat comments I made on the NANOG list >> that there are ways of accomplishing the same thing >> which do not require the cr

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
At 14:16 21/12/2009, Ted Hardie wrote: I have not objection to the creation of sink.arpa, but I will repeat comments I made on the NANOG list that there are ways of accomplishing the same thing which do not require the creation of this registry. One example method would be to create MX records w

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread Ted Hardie
I have not objection to the creation of sink.arpa, but I will repeat comments I made on the NANOG list that there are ways of accomplishing the same thing which do not require the creation of this registry. One example method would be to create MX records which point to 257.in-addr.arpa; this addr