Re: [dnsext] I-D Action:draft-ietf-dnsext-aliasing-requirements-00.txt

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 28 February 2011 08:48 UTC

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:48:59 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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Subject: Re: [dnsext] I-D Action:draft-ietf-dnsext-aliasing-requirements-00.txt
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:07:54PM +0000,
 Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> wrote 
 a message of 402 lines which said:

> > technology; it can be done, and is done today, entirely with
> > provisioning logic and registry policy.
> 
> +AB: Note this isn't only a registry solution. It could be done by
> +AB: users too (e.g. through a zonefile preprocessor that was
> +AB: run prior to signing of the zone).

A registry can be at any level. See the IDN RFCs which use the word
"registry" for "anything that manage a zone, whether the zone is .com
or foobar.momandpop.example".