Re: [Anima] I-D Action: draft-richardson-anima-registrar-considerations-00.txt

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 04 December 2019 15:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] I-D Action: draft-richardson-anima-registrar-considerations-00.txt
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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
    > This looks like all good stuff to me and I don't have much to say.

    >> The domain is embodied by the Registrar component.

    > I think that's a step too far, because the Registrar doesn't
    > do anything to establish the domain boundary and which nodes
    > are at the edges of the domain. So I think it's better to say

    > "The Registrar component embodies the identity, membership and
    > trust anchor of the domain."

Thank you.

    > [The identity being the DomainID, and the membership being the
    > set of currently enrolled pledges. The registrar is the trust
    > anchor because it either contains or interfaces with the CA.]

    >> This document, while a Best Current Practices, makes use of BCP14
    >> language to indicate which practices are mandatory, and which ones
    >> are just recommendations.

    > Did you mean to write "while *not* a BCP"? In any case you've
    > tagged the draft for the standards track, which seems wrong.

I meant to mark it as BCP (fixing), or perhaps it would informational.
I'm not really sure if makes sense to publish it in any rush.
Perhaps it belongs in a book or white paper.

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