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Re: draft-eastlake-2606bis-00.txt: Suggestions for modifications

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Thu, 20 October 2005 16:40 UTC

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:40:01 +0200
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>, namedroppers@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: draft-eastlake-2606bis-00.txt: Suggestions for modifications
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--On torsdag, oktober 20, 2005 16:12:01 +0000 Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> 
wrote:

># > when did the ietf community start ruling by law rather than leading by
># > recommendations?  can't we just say "any application or library which
># > does DNS lookups to translate presentation-layer endpoint identifiers
># > into network-layer endpoint identifiers should take care to avoid doing
># > DNS lookups for presentation-layer content which is syntactically valid
># > as an IPv4 or IPv6 host name"?
>#
># Except that we've now created a class of names that are OK to register,
># and OK to populate in the DNS, but some applications will never be able
># to look up.... that's kind of bizarre.
>
> then make a recommendation that IANA not allocate such names as toplevels?
>
> (what people choose to do further down the tree is not up to us to
> decide.)

that's exactly what I'd like draft-eastlake-2606bis-00 to do....


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