Re: [art] draft-ietf-dnsop-attrleaf

[Tim Wicinski <[e-mail]>]

On 8/2/17 1:18 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> Howdy.
> 
> (Posting this on ART, since that's got the active thread on attrleaf, 
> for the moment.)
> 
> Thanks for the thoughtful comments on the draft.
> 
> I've been mulling over the challenges of this registration topic for 
> more than a decade, constantly being hoisted on the petard of 
> 
> I've come to the conclusion that "accommodating" the established 
> registration practices is a fundamentally wrong path.  The only way to 
> solve a problem of multiple registration authorities is to create a 
> single registration authority.
> 
> That is, the right path is to create a simple and obvious registration 
> model, and, separately, go back and fix the problematic documents.
> 
> Therefore I propose to:
> 
>     1. Have this document define the simple, sole, authoritative 
> mechanism for registering "top-level" (global scope) underscore names.
> 
>     2. Create a separate document that specifies modifications to the 
> SRV and URI documents, rationalizing the use of underscore names, 
> through the mechanism defined in -attrleaf-.


Dave

As the DNSOP Chair who has been pestering you regularly to keep working 
on this pragmatic approach to the problem, I would agree.
(as well the comments from others)

tim