Re: [DNSOP] [[e-mail]: New Version Notification for draft-sullivan-dns-class-useless-01.txt]

["Paul Hoffman" <[e-mail]>]

On 18 Mar 2016, at 16:13, David Conrad wrote:

> Suzanne,
>
> On Mar 18, 2016, at 3:51 PM, Suzanne Woolf <[e-mail]> 
> wrote:
>> There's an argument to be made that "People considered carefully and 
>> don't believe any amount of tinkering will make an idea that depends 
>> on CLASS workable, so the option isn't available" will result in 
>> shorter conversations about those ideas.
>
> I love your optimism, however I am skeptical that closing the registry 
> will have the desired effect.  I suspect a more likely outcome is that 
> the conversations will instead get longer as they become heated as to 
> whether or not the registry should be reopened.  I suspect a better 
> answer for the desired effect you are hoping for by closing the 
> registry would be an RFC that says "Classes Are Not The Droids You're 
> Looking For" that would allow "DNS experts" to simply point to that 
> document whenever someone suggests classes are a solution to any 
> particular problem.

A better answer would be to do both. That captures those people who come 
into the solution space via publishing a draft and those people who 
start at the IANA registry (yes, there are plenty of those). The 
security world has gotten good milage about putting things in an IANA 
registry hinting that the viewer is there because of the Bad Idea Fairy.

>
> And no, I'm not offering to write said document :)

Andrew is already doing that.

--Paul Hoffman