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Re: [dnsext] WGLC ENDS0-bis

Ray Bellis <Ray.Bellis@nominet.org.uk> Thu, 12 May 2011 15:19 UTC

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Ed,

Taking two of your paragraphs that I believe are related:

> 
> # 6.8.  Middleware Boxes
> 
> This section is a problem.  Middleware boxes aren't well defined (yes, there is the parenthetical list of examples), lacking references to documents that provide definitions here.  Going beyond that I don't know what this document is trying to impart.  Are these requirements on non-DNS processes that are acting as stateful proxies for DNS messages in dealing with EDNS0 records?

I believe the intent of 6.8 is to reflect 5625, where I put in text along the lines of "if you're trying to be transparent, make sure you don't strip the EDNS0 options".

Hence it's a "get out" for the generally accepted principle that EDNS0 is "hop by hop", for those cases where the middlebox is intended to be an "invisible" hop.


> Missing material
> 
> Item 8
> 
> I think the point that EDNS0 is a hop-by-hop marshaller of parameters, and not an end-to-end signalling mechanism is not clear enough.  I don't think the architectural placement of EDNS0 is clear described.  This should be in the introductory material.

However as you say I think the hop-by-hop principle does need more text - in fact I couldn't find any text in either this document or its predecessor that was explicit about this, despite it being well understood amongst DNS protocol geeks.

This came up when I was reviewing draft-kaplan-dnsext-enum-sip-source-ref-opt-code for the Independent Submissions Editor, and it's relevant to draft-crocker-dnssec-algo-signal too.

In both cases I wanted to cite the hop-by-hop principle but couldn't find relevant chapter and verse to back it up.

kind regards,

Ray

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