Re: [dbound] Thoughts and comments on draft-levine-orgboundary-04

[Casey Deccio <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Kurt Andersen (b) <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I'm still not sure that I have entirely grasped the nuances and especially
> the potential corner-case holes that reside within the algorithm proposed
> by Casey
>

I'm happy to answer specific questions or better explain concepts that are
poorly presented.


> and I don't see the benefit of supporting an "offline" mode since the
> applicability of the domain boundary lookups is in dealing with online,
> real time queries.
>

Unfortunately, domain boundary lookups are not confined to online,
real-time queries.  For example, for applications with performance
considerations, and/or those which have resource- or network-constrained
environments, online lookups might not be feasible or desirable.  Nor is it
necessarily feasible or desirable for logging or forensic applications.
I'm sure there are other examples.

The context of where we're coming from needs to be understood in designing
solutions in this space: the current solution is an offline file.  While a
solution with an online component is reasonable, closing the door to
offline solutions is not backwards compatible neither in the lookup
process, nor in the behaviors inherent in the process.

Also, this is one of the considerations that was discussed in the Prague
meeting and later mailing list discussion:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dbound/current/msg00502.html

On this topic, I'll be updating my draft (and code implementation) in
coming weeks to flesh out and clarify the offline component, addressing
some of the concerns that have cropped up in that regard.

Regards,
Casey