> The question was about why, in this effort, we are using 3779 > validation rules
because we understand how they work formally from considerable experience with PKIs. they are deployed and working today. the wg is considering an other validation process. it is still a bit wobbly, and the need for it is poorly motivated. if you remember, i advocated looking at this as a work item, and came up with the one rather subtle motivation for it. the rest of the motivations seem to involve transfer, which has never been defined or formalized, so can be molded to whatever excuse anybody needs this week. when the rirs are willing to help define transfer, we can look at this from an engineering view, as opposed to emotional and fud. > and the answer appears to be because a past, failed effort used > them. Is there really no technical justification? to paraphrase, C’mon Andy. You're better than this. randy _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list sidr@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr