Re: [dns-dir] draft-ietf-behave-nat64-discovery-heuristic-13

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:09:20AM -0500, Ralph Droms wrote:

> One more question: draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-03 is in
> ready to publish, waiting in cluster C83.

Oh, interesting.  I thought maybe that document had submerged because
of how it impinges on the relationship with ICANN.  But if it's going
to get published, then. . . 

>  Did you consider section
> 5, Domain Name Reservation Considerations, of that document;
> specifically, although draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names-03 has
> not yet been published, is it worth the effort to answer the
> questions in section 5?

. . . yes, it is, and no, I didn't consider them.  Note that this
particular name doesn't have any implications for the root zone,
though it does require IANA action to register the name in .arpa.
Here are the answers, in any case:

1.  No, although this is a name in .arpa and therefore is sort of
already marked as special.

2.  Yes.  Any application attempting to perform NAT64 discovery will
query the name.

3.  Yes, to the extent the API or library is affected by NAT64.

4.  No.

5.  No.

6.  This name has effects for operators of NAT64/DNS64, but otherwise
is just another .arpa name.

7.  The registry for .arpa is held at IANA, and only IANA needs to
take action here.

A


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