Re: [apps-discuss] "finding registered domains"

["J. Trent Adams" <[e-mail]>]

1.  Do people think this is work that needs to be done?

Coming up with a workable solution for identifying administrative
boundaries within domains is clearly important for many known use cases,
plus a sufficiently general solution would service many more uses that
are currently unknown.  We undoubtedly need to ween ourselves from the
public suffix list, especially as the longer the issue is left
unaddressed the more hacks or non-scalable work-arounds that will
proliferate.

As a case in point, the emerging DMARC work would benefit from this type
of solution.

2.  Do either of the above proposals seem like a good starting
    point?

Having read
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sullivan-domain-origin-assert-02 pretty
closely, and discussed it with my colleagues, I believe that this is a
perfectly reasonable starting point.

I don't believe it's the perfect solution in its current state (and I
personally prefer the name-only variant), but believe we can easily use
it as a solid aggregation point around which to build the right solution.

3.  If so, who is willing to do work on this (by reviewing and so
    on). 

Yes, I can commit to spending time on this work.


Thanks,
Trent


On 3/9/13 9:22 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> In the APPSAWG meeting on Monday, the chairs have asked me to take
> five minutes on the subject: topic.  I thought I'd better send a note
> in preparation.
>
> ICANN is in the process of awarding a little under 2000 new TLDs.
> Inspired, I believe, partly by that fact, Phill Hallam-Baker suggested
> a new DNS RRTYPE that would identify a name as a public suffix.
> Unfortunately, he fell ill and didn't have a chance to submit a draft
> on this.
>
> I'm opposed to that particular idea, however, because I think I have
> proposed a more generic mechanism that would still work just as well
> for that use case, and also allow future refinements.  I've outlined
> that mechanism in
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sullivan-domain-origin-assert-02.
>
> I won't have any slides on Monday; I really just want to learn the
> following:
>
>     1.  Do people think this is work that needs to be done?
>
>     2.  Do either of the above proposals seem like a good starting
>     point?
>
>     3.  If so, who is willing to do work on this (by reviewing and so
>     on).  
>
> (3) is especially important to me, because I received rather too
> little feedback on the draft I offered to think that anyone else is
> interested in pursuing it.  If people are interested in that draft,
> I'm certainly prepared to continue working on it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>

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