Re: [apps-discuss] [taugh.com-standards] Comments on draft-levine-orgboundary

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:24:18AM -0000, John Levine wrote:
 
> Of course, this assumes that you believe that there actually isn't
> anything interesting below .com.  If you look at the current public
> suffix list, they don't.

Yes, this is what has worried me too.  Brian Dickson raised this issue
at length to me off list; I was hoping he'd chime in some more here.

> It's a mess.  My impression is that the DNS is robust enough that it's
> not worth a lot of effort to try to cut down query rates unless you
> know that the query rate is totally absurd.

Or at least, if the DNS is the right place to put this data, then it
had _better_ be robust enough for that.  Certainly, there are lots of
people on the Internet today with 30s TTLs on their zones.  (Much
below 30 and you start to get wildly unpredictable behaviour.)

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