Re: [dns-privacy] draft-ietf-dprive-dtls-and-tls-profiles: configuration

"Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 26 October 2016 15:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dns-privacy] draft-ietf-dprive-dtls-and-tls-profiles: configuration
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On 26 Oct 2016, at 6:24, Sara Dickinson wrote:

>
>> On 23 Oct 2016, at 00:26, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings. Someone reading this document for the first time might not 
>> understand where the DNS name that is being discussed in the main 
>> body of the document was found. It is not until Section 8 ("Out of 
>> Band Sources of Domain Name") that this is mentioned, and that feels 
>> much too late.
>>
>> The document might be much more approachable if Section 8 was moved 
>> to immediately after Section 3, and if it was re-titled 
>> "Configuration of the Domain Name for Verification
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> This is a good point. As suggested in my other email I propose 
> including a definition in the Terminology section of ‘authentication 
> domain name’. Here is what I suggest:
>
> * Authentication domain name: A domain name that can be used to 
> authenticate a DNS Privacy enabling server. Sources of authentication 
> domain names are
>    discussed in Section * and Section *.
>
> And then also moving sections 7 and 8 to immediately after section 4. 
> I suggest after section 4 rather than 3 because 4 is currently the 
> ‘Discussion’.  However I’m not averse to splitting the 
> Discussion section up as it is rather large now….

Good point. Maybe moving 7 and 8 to be after 4.1 would make sense ("here 
is how you start, and here are what profiles are"). You could split 
Section 4 up or make it longer; it doesn't really matter as long as you 
don't go beyond three levels of heading there.

--Paul Hoffman