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

[Ralph Droms <[e-mail]>]

On Feb 19, 2013, at 8:47 AM 2/19/13, Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]> wrote:

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

Yes, I expect it to be published soon.

> 
>> 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.

Thanks a lot for offering that text.

- Ralph

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