Re: [dbound] On (not) moving forward

[Martin J. Dürst <[e-mail]>]

On 2016/03/28 23:13, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> Having said that: if this WG adopts one *or even multiple* of the
> proposals as Experimental RFCs. and even if just a handful of zone
> maintainers adopt some of them, Mozilla could use those as input to its
> own PSL.

The Mozilla part is the easy part. Essentially, a script in Python or 
Ruby or some such would do the job. And once it was established, the 
people maintaining the PSL might sooner or later start telling the DNS 
operators "why don't you just publish a record, that would save us some 
work".

The problem would be with the operators. It's quite possible that DNS 
operators would start adding such records if there's a standards track 
spec. I could even imagine them to be motivated to add the relevant 
records if there is *one* experimental spec. But multiple experimental 
specs? Not a splitter of a chance, if you as me.

So I think we better pick one solution. I'd think my main criteria would 
be 1) any major DNS operator voicing support for it (or already working 
on something like it), and 2) as simple as possible, but easily 
extensible in the future.


> I know that some people find this kind or resolution to IETF efforts to
> be a failure. Because these could be input to the PSL, or to a popular
> fork of the PSL if needed, I think this is actually worth our time and a
> bit more effort.

Doing multiple experiments may be a very good idea in some cases. It 
just doesn't look to me like it would work in our case.

Regards,   Martin.